Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Summer lovin.' Guys can drop the 'H-bomb and actually cause a stir. Ladies, this is your chance to meet lots of sophisticated older...
...open. And if the idea of the Web is to make Chinese firms more competitive, that means letting them have access to everything from DuPont's chemicals website to the U.S. Patent Office's listing of new inventions. For that reason, some Chinese think the government will drop all its talk about an intranet and throw open the doors. Says a 24-year-old engineer at Unicom-Sparkice: "Walk into any Chinese company with Net access and look at the hard drives; look at the bookmarks in the browsers. It's all U.S. content...
...course, minority enrollment is going to drop when affirmative action is curtailed. But as Charles Krauthammer noted [VIEWPOINT, April 20], many minority students were enrolling in schools whose academic requirements far exceeded their abilities and preparation. At heart, this is a socioeconomic problem. Many minority students come from low-income families, in which education is often not held in high regard. As a result of their parents' indifference, a number of these children do not perform well in school and are generally ill prepared for any college, much less schools with high academic standards, like the University of California, Berkeley...
Krauthammer has oversimplified the issues concerning minority admissions to the University of California system. He says that despite a startling decrease in black and Hispanic admissions at Berkeley and UCLA, the overall drop in minority admissions at all nine University of California campuses is not dramatic. But in a state as diverse as California, any decrease in the admission of underrepresented students is both significant and dramatic. The drop in minority admissions across the entire system is disturbing, not to be shrugged off as liberal alarmist rhetoric. The University of California must rethink and retool its eligibility and admission policies...
...going away. What does this mean to you? I am not asking that every student drop their commitments and run off to explore the world, though I am sure you would enjoy the experience if you did. What I am saying is that you should look at the four walls that surround you, both literally and figuratively. Think about how little you take advantage of Boston's public gardens and sports arenas, museums and parks. Think about the Harvard resources you have never stopped to explore, the libraries and exhibits you have never visited, the professors you have never...