Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reflect back, like sound bouncing off a wall. When the reflected waves reach Asia, they rebound again. But this double bounce inverts their effect: instead of depressing the thermocline, these twice-reflected waves now lift it up. Cool water dilutes the warmer liquid at the surface, causing a temperature drop in the eastern Pacific known, aptly enough, as La Nina. Thus, observes Ants Leetmaa, director of the National Climate Prediction Center, "each El Nino contains the seeds of its own destruction...
...this confession I do not imply that I live life on the edge or participate in "extreme" sports. Nor did I watch "Dead Poet's Society" and decide, carpe diem, that I would drop out of school to pursue an unlikely acting career. No, when I describe myself as a gambler, I mean it in the most base sense of the term. I wager money on the outcomes of random phenomena...
...drop pass by Poti from the right wing which allowed Drury to tip-in his 17th goal of the year...
...look at the women in science after undergraduate school, the numbers drop," Arnott says...
...astounding number of students drop Advanced Standing in their third year. Yet in our experience dealing with Advanced Standing, we have never seen anything to indicate that there is any reason to drop Advanced Standing. There is something strange about intelligent Harvard students worried about making sure they do something that will have no positive effect on them whatsoever, and will only limit their options...