In Aristophanes' "Birds" last spring, the score dipped into snippets of "There's No Business Like Show Business" and "Maria" from "West Side Story."

But for a handful of math whizzes, scores will dip.

Many political analysts agreed yesterday that the mayor deserved some credit for the gains in fourth-grade reading, just as he would surely have suffered politically had those scores dipped.

Schools that improved scores and attendance got cash bonuses; the state intervened in school districts whose scores and other indicators dipped below set levels.

You could see from fifth to sixth to seventh - usually their scores dip at that time, but here they went up.

Sainsbury's scores dipped again for Somerset in 1888; his highest total for the county was an unbeaten 42 against the MCC.

In Moscow and St. Petersburg, scores of public and semipublic hospitals, like the ones the Soviets set up for government ministries and major factories, are dipping their toes in the waters of private medicine - and then jumping in.

While Stratfield scores on the Iowa tests this year were consistent with the school's high scores in past years, scores dipped when third graders were later retested under strict monitoring; so did the number of changed answers.

THE average Connecticut student's score on the Scholastic Aptitude Test has dipped slightly.

Whatever the reason, your scores dipped to an average of fifty-five per cent.