Word: drops
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Whether those campaign promises can survive the economic meltdown looks uncertain. In the presidential debate on Sept. 26, Jim Lehrer pushed Obama and McCain to name which programs they would need to drop during the recession. Pressed into answering, Obama said he would not abandon his program to make the U.S. independent of foreign oil but admitted that "there may be individual components that we cannot...
...final tally, Dartmouth never trailed by more than three points. Carrying Harvard to the finish, McKinley came through with six kills and Ingersoll was close behind with five. One last service ace by Durwood topped off the Crimson’s 3-0 shutout of the Big Green.Attributing the drop-off in the third to a more relaxed attitude, the women’s team was not fazed by the tighter score.“I think it was mostly that we were comfortable,” Ingersoll said. “Even though it was closer, we still...
...then there’s the collider itself. Statistics about it don’t even sound real. Particles will reach 99.9999991 percent of light speed. Temperatures can drop to 456.25 degrees below zero. We’ll find the “God Particle!” (Not quite as apocalyptic as it sounds...
When some drop out of school, have children out of wedlock, and go to prison, the wealthy can shake their heads at the undeserving poor with no place in our society. We begrudge them cigarettes and cell phones, alcohol and drug use, unmarried sex, and even their ability to have children, forgetting King Lear in Act II: “O, reason not the need!... / Allow not nature more than nature need, / Man life’s as cheap as beast’s.” Instead, let’s look to Act III: “Take...
...bill passed the House 263 to 171 - with 91 Republicans and 172 Dems voting yes - a larger margin than expected, considering the bill's spectacular failure, 228 to 205, on Monday that caused the largest one-day drop, 778 points, in the Dow Jones industrial average. Very soon after passage, President Bush signed the bill into law, finally giving Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson the authority that he requested more than two weeks ago to buy up Wall Street's distressed mortgage-backed securities. But getting it done was not pretty or easy, and the clearest sign of that...