Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Southern California liquor distributor affiliated with Seagram. Bronfman complied. In 1995 the two had a much publicized encounter when Bronfman nearly hired Ovitz to run Universal but balked at his extravagant compensation demands. They hadn't really talked since--until Bronfman called Ovitz recently to ask whether he could drop the elder Ovitz from the payroll after all this time. Ovitz apologized and said he thought that had been done a couple of years ago. Just one thing, Ovitz asked: Could Bronfman give his father a nominal salary? That way, Ovitz pointed out, his father could at least keep...
...that a family of four could subsist for a month on the crumbs that stick to Weinstein's shirt. That family may soon need to find other means of dietary support: the big guy has shed 50 lbs. and is down to a merely huge 225. He hopes to drop 65 lbs. more. "I want to be Paul Newman's weight," he says in the burly baritone that has struck awe, fear and amusement into the small independent-film community...
...last possible add-drop dates for classes approach, a few still prowl the aisles at the Coop--some students are scrambling to buy books for classes they've only just joined, some are returning piles of dull novels after giving up on a course and then there are some who visit the bookstore again and again in order to draw out the pain of watching money trickle into the Coop's cavernous pockets. I must confess to belong to this last group of students. I buy only a couple of books at a time, hoping that perhaps next time there...
Homicides decreased from 99 in 1991 to 65 in 1994, a significant drop that Watson says was due to community alliances and stronger lines of communication...
Your story stated that half the Citadel's freshman female cadets have quit the school. Yes, it's true that 2 out of 4 dropped out, but what about the 81 men who also quit out of a class of 581? And while most "knobs" drop out during the first few weeks of the semester, these women hung in there until the bitter end. The two remaining women cadets continue to do well at the Citadel. After reading about the vicious hazing, which supposedly builds character but instead seems to keep these students at a juvenile level, I can only...