Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...clear Perot wasn't going to get into the debates and if he had, he would have been an equal-opportunity destroyer. What a waste for Dole to be the one to block it. After that, Perot would have to be crazy to entertain Dole's proposal that he drop out of the race, which may be why Dole gave it a whirl. It played out badly for Dole when he sent a mere campaign functionary and a leak allowed Perot to garner more press attention than he had since he started. What a dang fool idea. The weird...
...Research at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, is that, as Clayton says, "D.A.R.E. did not have any sustained effect on anything." A rating of D.A.R.E. by Drug Strategies, a respected Washington research group, arrived at the same conclusion, as has police chief Norm Stamper of Seattle, which may drop the program. For all its popularity, says Stamper, D.A.R.E. "does not make much of a dent in drug use when the kids get older...
...resigned myself to sealing my meaningless envelope and trying to muster the excitement to drop it in the mailbox with the same panache with which I would have pulled the lever. I would love to believe that envelope is even going to be opened in time to make a difference in the outcome, but I know that it will...
...popularity of his policies to pull him through. But he's not pushing a personality cult. One morning last summer, he was riding to work when he noticed billboards across Doha praising the first anniversary of his accession. When Hamad got to the Diwan, he issued instructions: Drop plans to celebrate the coup anniversary. "As for myself," the Emir said, "I plan to go fishing...
...York City, 15 male and female models from the Boss agency, which has declared itself "fur free," are planning to create a living PETA billboard. The models (including Calvin Klein poster boys MARCUS SCHENKENBERG, third from left, and JOEL WEST, fourth from right) will climb out of limos, drop their white terry-cloth robes in public and, as the ad says, "turn their backs...