Word: dropping
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George Bush journeyed to San Salvador as Vice President in 1983 to tell its leaders that the U.S. was prepared to drop aid to the country if they did not act against the death squads. He could make the same speech today. The country's center, enfeebled by vast poverty and the effects of a decade of war, is crumbling under the prodding of the offensive. The future for El Salvador looks to be a free-for-all between a buoyant and rearmed F.M.L.N. and generals willing to make the country a boneyard...
That is bad news for Wall Street, where buyouts have propped up stock prices and brought in fat advisory fees. Faced with a drop in the number of mergers and acquisitions, which fell 29% during the July-September quarter compared with 1988's third period, major investment firms have announced the layoffs of nearly 2,000 employees in recent months. Particularly sharp cutbacks have come at Shearson Lehman Hutton, which is dismissing 800 of its nearly 37,000 workers and said last week it would reshuffle its top management...
First, PBHA must rid itself of any illusions of grandeur. PBHA opinions just don't matter. Will the endorsement of PBHA change an election? No. A PBHA endorsement is just a drop in an ocean of political attitudes...
This machine is not musical by any stretch of the imagination. It bangs, bangs, bangs. No tones. It bangs with such force that Quincy House shakes with each drop of the weight. I can feel the vibrations. They aren't gentle...
...Einstein College of Medicine in New York City. Reid, who has a one-year-old daughter, advocates a separate pool of grant money for scientists who are in their peak years of child rearing. Otherwise, she says, "we're going to lose a highly trained population; they will simply drop out of the field...