Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...admissions officer who interviewed her at the state university told her that it would be a waste of taxpayers' money to admit her because she would only get married, drop out of the profession and never practice, the Boston Globe reported on Tuesday...
...enjoys long, solitary hikes (or any student who has been on FOP) can attest to the power and strength of the Nalgene bottle. This indestructible bottle is "supposedly made of the same material as the wind-shields of airplanes," explains FOP leader Becky Berman '99, "and you could drop them from the top floor of Leverett towers and they wouldn't break." So in addition to carrying their Nalgene bottles around for five days in the middle of the woods, students can be stuck with them for the rest of their lives...
...recommend to you an essay by Virginia Woolf about the magical hours of the winter days in London when the sky used to drop like a velvet drape and the street lamps and the lights in the shops popped on in protest...
...intervene in the new liberalization of Middle Eastern trade? Is the U.S. trying to upset the promising progress being made by Khatami? The U.S. has done a lot for nations having difficulty moving into an era of openness and democracy, but it is time for the U.S. to drop its Big Brother routine and assume the role of passive bystander. Only time will mend the Middle Eastern autocracy. DANIEL FURNER Wellington, New Zealand
...Because instead of waiting three years for the other bimbo to drop, they get Al Gore in the White House. He gets a honeymoon. The wooden quality that inspired you to describe him as a 'manlike object' while he was second banana strikes a lot of people as a relief after five years of the Big Smoothy. In the year 2000, Republicans are cutting one another up in the primaries; the party is hopelessly entangled in the public mind with these right-wing squirrels who set up people to snoop on the President's backseat activities. Gore sails into...