Word: dropped
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...lucky to limp out of Bridgeport without a lynching. It's a conceit, and that's all right, but whose conceit is it? The question of what constituency the Pudding and its scripts represent seems to have come late in Cardinal Knowledge when an innocent cast member dared to drop a line that even Mary Louise Smith wouldn't have minded: "Don't lie to me! If I want lies I'll talk to a Republican." Great throaty, angry boos came up from the audience (which would have, 40 years ago, marched down to the Trans-Lux to boo Roosevelt...
...exist. But Israeli officials also told the Secretary that they would tolerate Palestinians at the bargaining table if they were there as part of a Jordanian or united Arab delegation. The proposed confederation would seem to meet these demands. There is also the chance that the P.L.O. will soon drop the most offensive passages from its covenant; in his meeting with Vance, Sadat said he would press moderate P.L.O. leaders to revise the document when the Palestinian National Council meets next month in Cairo...
What went wrong? The quick answer is that Volvo's car sales in the U.S. fell from a peak of 60,338 in 1975 to 43,887 last year, a decline of 27.3%. But that drop is only a symptom of a deeper problem that afflicts not only Volvo but all Swedish industry. Essentially, the welfare-state policies of the Swedish government are pushing labor costs so high as to price Swedish products out of the international market...
Volvo has also been hurt by a drop in its reputation for quality. Though its sales in Sweden last year hit a record 75,000, its exports have slumped so badly that the company's plants are operating at only 70% of capacity-and even so, Volvo is running out of space to store unsold cars...
...hoopsters did manage to put a dent in Penn's lead when they reeled off eight quick points when play resumed. The salvo saw Hill drop a whirling 20-footer, Gary Ackerman connect off a rebound, and James sink a layup to make it 38-31 in a three-minute span...