Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seriously threatened, but ridiculously. Dressed in men's pajamas, they hang on a clothesline, like two tired mutts after a night of running the streets. Jim teasingly snaps the line, flipping Lorry off, then as she grabs back on, he flies off. They notice the audience, and, startled, drop to all fours. A searchlight, and a James Bond theme song, come on; the two run, frightened. Then, left to the clothesline again, they show off for one another, primping like a tom and pussycat. There's only a pink-lit romantic interlude, then gunshots, and both fall to the ground...
...current atmosphere at G & W as "paranoid." It was rather startling that a routine registration statement filed lately by Associates First Capital Corp., a financial-services subsidiary of G & W, was rejected by the SEC because of incomplete disclosure. Even more anguish has been caused to shareholders by the drop in the company's stock: it has sagged by more than 20% this year, leaving Bluhdorn's conglomerate in the humiliating posture of selling for less than $14 a share, or $8 a share below book value...
...call the President on this?" No, said Mahon. "We can handle it down the street." After Carter's announcement, O'Neill checked with his colleagues ("moseyed around the House floor") and concluded that Democratic leaders would have no difficulty persuading both the House and Senate to drop the funds or, as the White House would prefer, earmark them for cruise missiles and B-52 modifications...
...These "drop notices" were further delayed this year because Cambridge was in the process of computerizing its registration records...
...works for the commission, yesterday said, "There's a history in Cambridge not to register students because the Old Machine people felt that they'd tip the political balance in favor of the liberals." The commission is not acting maliciously, "they just see a greater opportunity to drop people," she said...