Word: drop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...growth of traffic, but the number of passengers has increased by only 7%. Last year American Airlines scheduled 103 weekly flights from New York to Los Angeles, operated them at 70% of capacity. This year, after adding 43 flights to the route, American has seen that occupancy figure drop...
Andrew W. Cordier, acting president of Columbia, announced last week that he and the university trustees had asked the courts to drop criminal trepass charges against some 400 students but recommended no leniency for 154 students charged with more serious crimes, including assault and incting to riot...
...Barnard College centered around Linda LeClair, 20, and her loud fight for every girl's right to live off campus with the roommate of her choice. Linda won that argument, but now it seems that she has given up on stuffy old Barnard altogether, choosing to drop out this fall in favor of communal housekeeping on Manhattan's West Side. Barnard President Martha Peterson, says Linda, has her sympathy. "She is aware that recognizing sexual intercourse would cause embarrassment to the ladies that give money to the college...
...student body will be considerably more diverse than it is today. Improved testing techniques will permit many high school sophomores and juniors to enter college. Once there, students need be in no hurry to finish, will be able to drop out for a year or more of off-campus work. Some may take up to ten years to get a B.A. "There will be 14-and 15-year-old early entrants in classes with 30-and 40-year-old returnees," Mayhew predicts. "There will be young married couples, women whose children are full grown...
...wonder that children, as they grow to adolescence, often turn out to be complete strangers to their dismayed parents? Why do an enormous number of young people from educated and middle-class families find it difficult or impossible to relate to anybody and therefore drop...