Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last year, however, the law school had 40 black students. The drop comes a little over a year after the fifth circuit of the Federal Court of Appeals prohibited the racial preferences Texas used in admission...
...YORK CITY: Intel's prediction of weaker-than-expected second quarter earnings sent the stock plunging in early trading Friday, dragging many other tech-stocks with it. Citing surprisingly weak demand for its microprocessor chips, Intel suffered a 14.5 percent drop in morning trading on the Nasdaq exchange. By the end of trading, the stock made up more than half its loss, finishing down $12.27 at $151.50 "Investors have a tendency to oversell and overbuy stocks when there is especially good or bad news," said Charles Boucher, an analyst at New York-based UBS Securities. "On a negative announcement from...
Using a telephone to increase the range in which one can be rude isn't new either. Think what the telephone has already done for the invasion of peace and privacy. For years it has tyrannized people's lives with the premise that its jangling summons requires them to drop whatever they are doing and attend to it immediately. And they do. Lovers leave sweethearts with their outstretched arms and business people leave customers with their outstretched wallets...
Editors also said they plan to door drop Nuestra Voz next semester and distribute it earlier, to beat finals week...
...water. Crime is in free fall, with violent evildoing near a 22-year low, and the downtowns we once gave up for dead are bristling with coffee bars, green markets, life. New York City, that trusty symbol of terminal decay, is bloated no more. It boasts America's sharpest drop in crime, a rekindled economy and--mirabile dictu!--an $800 million budget surplus. Out in the suburbs, our gardens are costly and ambitious, and shiny grills are taking up residence on our new redwood decks. The statisticians assure us our houses are more valuable, our marriages more solid, our teenagers...