Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...increased circumspection of Japanese companies in hiring is also mirrored in the drop in the number of Harvard students studying Japanese...
...With the drop-back-and-sling-it strategy failing, Yale mustered only 49 passing yards on its way to a 14-0 deficit and the intermission...
Despite all the hype, and all the anti-IRS hysteria, only 5,000 taxpayers nationwide called in advance for appointments, and there were not a lot of drop-bys. Perhaps more will come in April. For now, however, it seems the generous offer to spend your Saturday with an IRS agent doesn't hold that much appeal...
...sooner had rumors of a possible South Korean collapse swept out of Seoul than the Japanese yen and the Tokyo stock market plunged to their lowest levels in two years. Across the Pacific, the ill winds from Asia blew the Dow Jones industrial average into a 157-point drop on Wednesday. "The real problem in East Asia is not Thailand, Indonesia or the Philippines," says Kenneth Courtis, chief Asia-Pacific strategist for Deutsche Morgan Grenfell. "It is Japan and Korea...
...credibility, such as the opening "There's a Rumor in St. Petersburg." Here, the peasants belt into a song that carries the dubious refrain "Since the revolution, our lives have been so gray." The staging itself doesn't have any delusions about its purpose: hundreds of Russian peasants drop their work, disperse from their bread line and take up synchronized folk dancing in one of the more laughable spectacles of the film. Yet Anastasia--unlike Pocahontas, for example--makes no pretense about adhering to history, and we accept it all in good...