Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...much of the proceedings, two-thirds of the members didn't even bother to show up to listen to their colleagues, to the point that Democrat David Obey urged the Speaker to tell members that "whatever they're doing, they ought to drop it and get their tails in here." At the outset, the proceedings were confined to two hours, which produced the spectacle of one lawmaker after another finding that he didn't have time to serve up a sound bite, much less an idea. Some complained that they had spent more time naming post offices last week...
...waited by the refrigerators in the back," recounts Larry. "Whenever someone went back there, he would slur, 'whatever you're getting to drink, I assure you, I've got something better,' and he proceeded to drop his pants." According to Larry, it was by no means better...
...kind of box score: nine of 13 countries on the Pacific Rim of Asia that once accounted for a third of world output "are in depression or recession, and we're still counting"; Japan, the world's second biggest economy, "is still going down--it looks like a drop of 2% this year"; in Latin America, Venezuela and Colombia are in recession and Brazil is "in a very dicey situation," saddled with an overvalued currency. Argentina also "is at risk because a chunk of its exports goes to Brazil." Even Canada is "slowing down because of Asia"--and Canada...
...might be using your nest egg as collateral to borrow millions to bet on, say, the 49ers game? Relax. The securities regulators are better than you think. They worry more about you than about the folks who invested in Long Term--the sort who can drop $10 million without having to sell their jets...
...group aims to stop corporate investment and to cease recognition by any nation of the Taliban government, which has barred women from schooling and work. Mavis Leno has gone beyond giving parties. Two weeks ago, she went to a Unocal shareholders' meeting to demand that the oil company drop plans to build a $4.5 billion pipeline in Afghanistan. Not long after, Unocal temporarily ceased operations there...