Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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About 100 fewer people applied to the Law School this year than in 1976, with a proportionate drop in the number of minority applicants, an assistant director of admissions said yesterday...
...spite of the drop in applications, there will be more minority members accepted this year," Thompson said...
Carter had complained early on about the amount of paper he had to consume. His staff analyzed operations through his first six weeks and tried to improve things. But the study of the second six weeks showed only a small drop in the work load. Unscheduled consultations and pop-in appointments were taking up as much as 15% of the precious presidential day. Carter, it appeared, was the one who was being forced to adjust. He added four more regular weekly meetings to his schedule. He ordered his wake-up calls at 6 a.m. (instead of 6:30) to expand...
...mixed. The President's popularity rating in opinion polls has risen, rather than falling sharply as he once said he feared it would when he announced the energy program. On the other hand, surveys taken by Pennsylvania-based Sindlinger & Co. in the past two weeks show the sharpest drop in consumer confidence in the economy since the Arab oil embargo of 1973. Chairman Albert Sindlinger blames confusion among consumers as to just what the energy program is likely to do to them...
...case, no groundswell of public enthusiasm can yet be detected. The Boston Globe did get a lot of mail on the energy plan, most of it favorable -almost as many letters as poured in last November when it temporarily dropped the popular Doonesbury comic strip. But on Capitol Hill, Congressmen almost unanimously described their energy mail as light to moderate. "It's an absolute drop in the bucket compared with saccharin," said Melody Miller, a Ted Kennedy aide...