Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course, not everyone reacted with such flinty nonchalance. Some students said they wouldn't return to Heritage for the final days of the school year, and others say they never want to come back. One girl says she will drop out entirely to begin home schooling. "It's not worth going to school to get shot," says Krystal Graham, 16. It's almost as if Littleton taught us nothing about how to understand the individual traumas that drive certain boys to solve their problems with rifles...
...first surprise in Bristol is the Woodstock-on-wheels scene. Race fans converge from hundreds of miles away, arriving in motor homes as early as Thursday for parties, concerts, qualifying rounds and a junior-circuit Saturday race called the Busch Series. The local newspaper estimates that race fans will drop nearly $70 million into local pockets, and the money starts flowing at a Friday-night fund raiser for local children's charities. About 300 people have come to eyeball their racing heroes and bid on auction items like hats, uniforms and a Jeff Gordon jacket...
...Gandhi. The Italian-born widow of slain prime minister Rajiv Gandhi reclaimed the reins of her Congress party Tuesday, after rowdy protests, pleading deputations and even an attempted self-immolation by a despairing supporter coaxed her out of a self-imposed week in the political wilderness. Promising that "every drop of my blood belongs to this country," Gandhi galvanized party activists for a head-on battle against opposition attempts to center their campaign for September's election around the issue of her foreign birth. Gandhi's brief resignation had been prompted by three Congress leaders -- subsequently expelled -- echoing this concern...
...turn, the Germans began to listen. The watershed moment came when the Yanks (with a little inside help) persuaded Schrempp in March to drop a long-standing bid to buy Japan's Nissan Motors. Schrempp wanted Nissan badly, to consolidate his empire, and he had been negotiating with an absolutely desperate Yoshikazu Hanawa, Nissan's chairman. But the Americans, who would have been saddled with turning Nissan around, had been uncomfortable with the plan from the start...
...suspensions are down. The Round Rock, Texas, school district started character education last year after a survey of student attitudes showed some alarming results: 71% of students admitted to telling a lie in the previous month, for example. Round Rock's Jollyville Elementary School reports a 40% drop in disciplinary referrals since the program's inception...