Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While the number of Harvard students selected for the scholarship is down from last year's eight, officials in the fellowships office at the Office of Career Services (OCS) attribute the drop to annual fluctuations and not to weakness in this year's applicant pool...
...third complaint raised by critics is thatmany upperclass non-SAC members drop out becausethey have feel they have little role in theorganization...
McLain, for his part, acknowledged in an e-mailmessage that he did not think associates feltwelcome at SAC meetings, and says he agrees thattoo many associates drop out of the IOP aftertheir sophomore year...
While high crimes and misdemeanors may be on the rise in Washington, around the country major crime appears to be down -- again. The FBI reports that serious crime dropped 5 percent nationwide in the first half of 1998, continuing a decline that began six and a half years ago. All seven types of major crime declined, led by an 11 percent drop in robberies and an 8 percent drop in murders. "These continuing declines are more evidence that we have turned an historic corner on crime," proclaimed Attorney General Janet Reno...
...closely connected-it was clear that art here was subservient to the show's political message. Outside of the monologues, every element of the production was representative of "the message." Twilight is produced in the round, and over each of the four sets of bleachers is suspended a drop representing one of the four ethnicities that clashed in the riots. The audience is divided by these pendants into neighborhoods; Black, Korean, Latino, White, "drawing the audience into the conflict," according to Chang. Though each drop is well conceived in its own right, the aesthetics clash fiercely against one another...