Word: drops
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Last New Year’s Eve, Steven E. Johnston ’09 was on the trail with John McCain’s campaign, driving a van for members of the press to drop in at various parties where the senator was speaking. When he got back into his vehicle after a dinner stop, his boss told him Johnston was going to be driving McCain himself...
...There are a few unreceptive locals—one man glares from behind his screened porch, another refuses even to listen to the canvassers’ pitch—but most are polite and pleasant. The majority aren’t home, so they “lit drop,” leaving behind brochures on the candidates...
When it comes to the U.S. housing market, it's sensible to plan for the worst. The latest Case-Shiller Home Price Index for a 20-city composite showed that prices recorded a 1% drop in August and were down 17% for the past 12 months. Miami had a 2% monthly drop and a 28% tumble over the last year; in San Francisco it was ?4%, and ?27% for the year...
...gleaming building's units remain unsold, and The Donald's lenders are looming. Roughly 75% of the 4,900 condominium units under construction in downtown Chicago are already sold. That's good, but next year the number of new units coming onto the market is expected to drop to 4,600, and only 60% are sold, according to Appraisal Research Counselors, a consulting firm that tracks downtown Chicago real estate...
...many other commitments for the day leave her with only one and a half hours to buy her materials and make some serious progress on her Bill Gates (initially class of 1977, although subsequent drop-out) inspired design. She is enthusiastically tearing apart the seams of a large men’s oxford shirt when I meet her in front of Boylston Hall...