Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...light a fire under students in general, there is little evidence that the ones who serve as cautionary examples actually benefit. Just the opposite may be true. A national study of 12,000 pupils found that students retained before eighth grade are more than twice as likely to drop out of high school as kids who remained with their age group. In 1989, University of Georgia professor Thomas Holmes surveyed 63 studies that compared the performance of retained students with that of similarly poorly performing kids who were promoted; in 54 cases the retained students did worse once they went...
...wasn't just older, cheaper planes that won over Kosovo. The real star of the show was a new but very cheap bomb. While the Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) is a pretty low-tech weapon, its satellite-guided tail fins let a plane at any altitude drop it right on target through clouds, smoke or darkness. At about $20,000 a pop, it's far cheaper than the $1 million cruise missile that has been the precision-guided weapon of choice for the past decade. "Once you get the air defenses suppressed, you can just fly over and puke...
With all of the new publications dropped at student doors, they could drop by out of the way condom dispensers on those less literary moments...
Total crime on Harvard's Cambridge and Boston campuses has declined more than 21 percent since 1997, including a nearly 30 percent drop in bike thefts, long the most persistent thorn in the side of campus law enforcers...
Total crime on Harvard's Cambridge and Boston campuses has declined more than 21percent since 1997, including a nearly 30 percent drop in bike thefts, long the most persistent thorn in the side of campus law enforcers...