Word: dipping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...commissioners acknowledged that the numberswere low and attributed part of the dip to voterapathy and anger with the political system...
...data left no doubt that Bush is suffering. Matched against Clinton, Bush ran only slightly behind the Democrat. But other trends were stark enough to set off alarms at the White House. The President's job-approval rating fell to 30%, a dip of seven points since May and the lowest score he has received in any TIME/CNN survey. Just two months ago, 60% judged Bush a "strong and decisive leader." That figure dropped to 45% last week. Bush's advisers concede that his ambivalent response to the Los Angeles riots damaged his image as a leader...
...hires from the area and put them through 160 hours of training. "After six months on the job," he says, "seeing an inmate who messes up, my officers think they have failed." Direct supervision is a giant step for Texas, where sheriffs as a rule act tough and dip snuff. The touchy-feely character of direct supervision may rub them the wrong way. But what is forcing them to take Tarrant County seriously is its cost-efficiency and the mounting evidence that inmates are better managed. With overcrowding the most pressing problem in Texas jails, followed by a shortage...
...party, untested in any office, unclear in his policies and unshakable in the faith that he is right and the entire bipartisan governing establishment is wrong. No independent candidate in 80 years has attracted anything like this kind of support -- and remember, Perot has just barely begun to dip into his personal bank account to spend, as he promises, "whatever it takes to run a proper campaign...
...written on it, and the practitioner performs both the diagnosis and the cure -- an exotic hand-and-body dance designed to "re-establish the balance of yin and yang" -- from any distance away. Thousands of visitors pour into the Philippine Islands to have local sleight- of-hand artists apparently dip bare-handed into their body to remove cancerous tumors. They dip into their bank accounts rather dramatically...