Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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RETIRING EARLY WILL PROBABLY MEAN A DROP IN PENSION...
...dubbed Operation Breakout. That compares with $13 million in 1996. Democrats will spend $7 million, up $1 million from two years ago. The G.O.P. is expected to lay out $10 million on Senate races before the campaign is over. "The anticipation is excruciating--just thinking they're going to drop all this money in the last week, too late for us to respond," says a Democratic strategist...
...very, very good at being young and exceptional. Having distinguished ourselves somehow by age 18, we have all become accustomed to hearing our elders say things like "Can you believe she did that at her age?" Unfortunately, it's the "at her age" qualifier that's particularly hard to drop. With all the child prodigies in the world, it's surprising we don't hear from more of them later in life. It's rare, for example, to see renowned artists whose work was first exhibited when they were teenagers. Maybe most of them, having published their major works...
...that mythic unshaven creature of Harvard Square, beer on his breath and bad deeds on his mind, who finds an ID in the crosswalk on Mass. Ave. and jumps at the chance to infiltrate the Harvard system? That is not likely to happen. People don't drop their ID cards on the street all that often. When they do, they know (or can be reminded) to call and report their ID lost...
...TIME London bureau chief Barry Hillenbrand. "They're committed to seeing through the Spanish extradition request, but this is too hot for Britain to handle alone." As Pinochet's lawyers fought for his release in London, the Spanish high court was considering a magistrate's extradition request. If Madrid drops the case, Britain will still face pressure to try Pinochet in London or turn him over to answer new charges filed in Switzerland and France. But the political fallout in Chile may persuade Britain's Home Secretary Jack Straw to veto any further legal proceedings on humanitarian grounds...