Word: drop-off
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...believed to make more household viewing choices. But you wouldn't have known it by watching lately. Like post-9/11 politics, much post-9/11 TV has been manly and daddy-oriented. The networks have churned out CSI clones that have mostly male leads. After a ratings drop-off among young men last fall, executives blamed new shows starring women (Karen Sisco, Miss Match). Family sitcoms hew to the formula of lumpy guy with hot, smart but secondary wife. Bush's answer to the "strong women" question - that he learned "to listen to them" - was According to Jim politics...
...Fung Wah service had featured curbside pick-up and drop-off points on Canal Street in lower Manhattan and Beach Street in Boston...
...YEAR AFTER THE RATINGS SHOWED A drop-off in young male viewers of broadcast TV, it's not surprising to see three new shows about teenage boys. More surprising is what the boys are doing: wrestling with moral dilemmas, sorting out their ambitions, making sense of relationships...
...both hate and love," explains Judy Corcoran, co-author of Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex. "There's still anger, jealousy, hurt and fear that doesn't disappear just because the marriage ended. And those feelings are constantly reignited with every disagreement and drop...
...Primarily the more liberal mainline denominations like United Methodists, the Presbyterian Church (USA) and the Episcopal Church. "We are losing our own children," says Kenneth Carder, Bishop of the Methodists' Mississippi Conference. But even some evangelical growth is tapering: the 16.3 million-member Southern Baptist Convention has conceded a drop-off in Sunday school enrollment...