Word: dropping
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...reform was too drastic, grumbles that these programs "are still taking [people] off the top of the deck" and that many of the hardest-to-place welfare recipients are being pushed off the rolls without having much chance of entering the work force. He is concerned that companies will drop their welfare-to-work hires when the economy slumps and workers become cheaper and more plentiful. "These people are the classic example of last hired," he says. "And you know how that ends--first fired...
...jetliner that keeps hitting turbulence, the Boeing Co. has been lurching through some stomach-churning rides. An embarrassing failure to meet delivery schedules helped force the Seattle giant to take a $178 million loss in 1997--its first red ink in 50 years--and to report a 90% drop in profits for the first quarter of 1998. The problem: shortages of parts and a production system that could not keep up with the largest surge of new orders in the history...
...funding soon," says one of Mir's handlers, "who knows when and how we'll have to bring the station down?" Officials insist that there is no cause for alarm. "We can manage the initial descent," says space-agency spokesman Anatoly Tkachyov, describing a plan to drop the station gradually into descending orbits. If its interlocking modules successfully separate, the station will then tumble piece by piece to Earth; Moscow hopes that whatever bits of the 120-ton space station don't burn up in free fall will quietly splash down. It's not coincidental that the talk of pulling...
...moved into temporary housing, as well as the sixteenth time I have moved into temporary housing with people I do not know. For some reason, the real people who administrate our lives before we join their ranks have decided that people like us can be shuffled around at the drop of a hat, and we have willingly accepted that premise...
...have no evidence yet that it does, because even in my (temporary) move to a metropolis supposedly filled with the species, I have yet to meet a bona fide real person who was born after 1972. If you are one, please drop me a line. I want to know what it's really like out there...