Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When 46 states signed the tobacco deal two weeks ago, in which they agreed to drop their smoking-related Medicaid lawsuits in return for $206 billion from the cigarette companies, kids like Randall were a chief consideration. A large chunk of the money will be used to combat teen smoking, which, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, jumped 73% from 1988 to 1996. So a lot of attention may soon be focused on Florida, home of the most aggressive, get-tough campaign against teen smoking...
...believe, in fact, that most women would prefer a man to be glumly uncommunicative than to spill his guts at the drop of a hat. That (one recalls with a shudder) was the goal of the so-called men's movement of Robert Bly et al. in the 1980s and early '90s, which exhorted men to express their feelings. If anyone doubts the perils of men expressing feelings, he should watch The McLaughlin Group or Cable Monica...
...heard your Mr. Show partner, Bob Odenkirk, is dead weight--your Art Garfunkel, your Andrew Ridgely, your Lowell Ganz. When are you going to drop...
...afraid he's going to drop...
...expect numbers [of minorities] to drop[without the current system that takes race intoaccount]," said Tracey M. Lynch, spokesperson forthe Boston Public Schools...