Word: drop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that would leave no one a winner. The judges suggested that the Attorney General simply ask the government to abolish nationality as a category of birth registration. Although this would appear to be a simple and logical solution, few Israeli political observers expect that the Knesset will agree to drop the disputed requirement. If it does not, the riddle will once again return to the Supreme Court for a final decision...
Conditions may be even worse at the dealer's service area. There is a nationwide shortage of about 140,000 mechanics. The industry finds that many dropouts who drop into the repair business never do learn the trade. Those with rare aptitude often find better-paying jobs with an airline, or even on an auto assembly line. Service under warranties, which cover about 10% of auto-repair business, suffers from an additional handicap. Dealers say that the automakers are niggardly with compensation for warranty work, allowing only a 25% profit margin for parts, compared with the 40% or more...
WHILE MOST OF YOU were perishing in the diabolical black fire of this neo-Dadaist life in America, agonizing over Harvard's impending football doom like a particle in the livid-frigid Flux, I decided to drop in on the Cecilia Society and the Glee Club concerts at the still point of the burning world. "Song is the key," I reasoned, "for only the rapture of song links such disparate spirits as Arjuna, Chemosh, Mailer, Nixon, Tristan, Bruckner, and the confluence of latent universal souls thrashing about in the torpid light of Art. Let us ublimate the manifold contradictions...
...Those cuts do not affect the faculty budget directly. No grants go into the budget; instead, the faculty receives a percentage of each research grant as payment for overhead costs--such as maintaining the labs and offices for the researchers. So when the research contracts are cut, overhead payments drop correspondingly. The overhead costs, however, keep right on going, and the Faculty begins to lose money on its labs instead of breaking even...
...predicted deficit. This year, however, prospects are bleaker. The Faculty will still get its overhead percentage--7 per cent of all research money--but the total amount of research grants will be much lower. For the first time since the 1940's, the grant totals will drop, and Ford predicts 25 per cent less research money than would have come with normal expansion...