Word: dump
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this is how their generation rebels: they dump their parents' avowed political beliefs but pick up their parents' social-sexual mores and run with them. They smoke, drink, take drugs and have sex--earlier than we ever dreamed of doing. According to recent government surveys, 45% of 10th-graders and 31% of eighth-graders say they have taken illicit drugs; 21% of 10th- and 10% of eighth-graders say they have been drunk in the past month. In 1995, 50% of girls ages 15 to 19 said they had had intercourse, compared with 29% in 1970, when our famous sexual...
...YORK: Attention stockholders ? Don't let Friday's 254-point plunge of the Dow Jones industrial average lead you to dump your shares just yet. With the markets creeping back up in early trading, analysts are describing last week's sell-off as little more than a "minor correction...
NEWT GINGRICH O.K., he put down the rebellion. But now he knows: even his buddies want to dump...
...million oz. of gold it had "discovered" were a hoax. That may not be all bad: investors don't have much use for the stuff anyway. Recently Australia, the world's third largest producer, confirmed the sale of about two-thirds of its holdings. The $1.87 billion gold dump followed sell-offs by Belgium and the Netherlands and reports that others would follow. Australia's sale sent the price sinking to $314.60 per troy oz., a 12-year low, before it recovered to $324. With production costs around $300 per oz., South Africa, the No. 1 producer, faces the loss...
...authorities said. The island's 2,000 residents have been ordered to evacuate. The storm is currently located about 45 miles southeast of New Orleans and is expected to move across the Gulf then inland somewhere between Gulfport, Mississippi and Mobile, Alabama by Saturday. The Hurricane is expected to dump 10 to 20 inches of rain on the region and produce isolated tornadoes in some spots. After forming Wednesday morning in the north central Gulf, Danny built into a tropical storm Thursday morning. It drifted northeast and then came to a standstill about 110 miles southwest of New Orleans...