Word: dropping
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...later, convicted not of murder but of "betraying the security of the Palestinian people." Palestinian Authority Preventive Security Chief Jibril Rajoub, defending the convictions before indignant leaders of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine--who demanded the release of Qaysi and Kam and called for Palestinians to "drop the olive branch and pick up the rifle"--said the sentences were justified because the attack was a "big strategic mistake...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: A crackdown on delinquent student loans seems to have paid off: the Education Department reported Thursday that the 1994 default rate was 10.7 percent, a 40 percent drop from the year before President Clinton took office. The Administration was swift to take credit, and used the opportunity to press for further education tax breaks. It was the President, after all, who had proposed such tough measures as dropping trade schools with high default rates from national student aid programs, garnishing the wages of delinquent students and withholding their tax refunds. Meeting with six college students in the Oval...
Laura B. Stearns '98, who qualified for this year's singlehanded sailing nationals but had to drop out because of a knee injury, says this spring's team sailing matches against schools like MIT and Boston University (B.U.) will draw larger crowds because of their confrontational nature...
...YORK CITY: Police and city officials in New York are cheering an impressive, but somewhat uncomfortable crime statistic. For the first time since 1968, the number of murders committed in the city will drop below 1,000. As of Tuesday morning, the total stood at 978 deaths, fewer than half 1990's grisly record 2,245 killings. The symbolic importance of the 1,000-murder mark has not been lost on the Police Department or the press. In the days before New Year?s, the New York Post ran the tally each day on what looked like a big odometer...
...YORK CITY: Police and city officials in New York are cheering an impressive, but somewhat uncomfortable crime statistic. For the first time since 1968, the number of murders committed in the city will drop below 1,000. As of Tuesday morning, the total stood at 978 deaths, fewer than half 1990's grisly record 2,245 killings. The symbolic importance of the 1,000-murder mark has not been lost on the Police Department or the press. In the days before New Year?s, the New York Post ran the tally each day on what looked like a big odometer...