Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...propelled to the forefront of the thin ranks of young, attractive G.O.P. officeholders with bright futures. In 1973, during his second term as mayor, Lugar hit the Republican fundraising circuit, conceding that he was "sort of running" for his party's 1976 presidential nomination. Before 1980, he may drop the "sort of." PENNSYLVANIA: '57 VARIETIES...
...business growth needed to create jobs, sales and profits. The most disappointing disclosure: the Government's composite index of leading indicators, which had risen for 17 consecutive months as the economy climbed out of its worst recession in decades, fell .7% in September-the second monthly drop...
...idea of a writing center, or in the words of one flier, "A drop-in center for persons interested in working on their writing with some company," had been circulating among the Expository Writing faculty for years. It had long recognized the inadequacy of a single term of Expos to serve a student's writing needs. Finally, last spring, Donald Byker, asstant director of Expository Writing, decided something should be done and asked Weinstein and Joan Bolker, each of whom bears the elegant title of Preceptor in Expository Writing, to organize the center. Assistant Director of Expository Writing Byker agreed...
Baggott, you see, is the starting drop end on the varsity team, which is common knowledge to anyone who knows the nickname...
...copyright on the Revised Standard Version, the most widely used 20th century Bible translation, and two dozen scholars are working on a new edition to be issued in the mid-1980s. At their annual gathering last June, the translators took up the sexism issue and readily agreed to drop masculine language that is not included in the original Hebrew or Greek text...