Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...center also has a drop-in lounge that is open 365 days a year, a kitchen, an arts and crafts classroom, and a kiln complete with a potter's wheel...
...White House says it switched largely because House Ways and Means Committee chairman Bill Archer agreed to drop a provision that would have allowed the outside panel to hire or dismiss the IRS commissioner, a power that now rests with the President. But that's a compromise Archer offered two weeks ago. A better explanation is the charged atmosphere that followed recent Senate hearings at which IRS victims told their horror stories. "At a certain point," says a senior Administration official, "the avalanche is going to happen, and you have a choice: stand in the hut and get crushed...
...strangling on a lethal brew of skyrocketing interest rates, current-account deficits, shrinking budgets and rapid flight of the foreign loans and capital that in many countries underwrote the miracle. "Right now my feeling is one of despair," says a Jakarta stockbroker who has watched the Indonesian stock market drop 33% since July. (It was down 5.8% just last week.) "Looks like it's going to get worse and worse before there's any chance of its getting any better...
...government reports could hope. Attempting nothing less than to "measure the health of American art," it first came to light when leaked to the New York Times, which ran a front-page story highlighting the most provocative of its conclusions with the headline STUDY LINKS DROP IN SUPPORT TO ELITIST ATTITUDE IN THE ARTS. The presumption among many outraged artists was that a self-loathing NEA had somehow found common ground with right-wing bullies...
...unparalleled success of Bill Gates, a Harvard drop-out, has always loomed large on the minds of students when re-examining their motivations for staying in school...