Word: dump
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Popkin says she joined the Young Democrats Club with the intention of turning what was then the largest organization on campus into a tool of the anti-war movement. Their main goal was to dump Johnson, and she helped send more than 400 students from Harvard and Radcliffe to work during the primaries...
...price of Marlboro cigarettes, reducing the average cost of a pack to $1.80. Admitting that this aggressive pricing could reduce earnings 40% this year, the company said it had to meet the challenge of discount and generic brands. Fears of a price war prompted Wall Street to dump tobacco stocks. Philip Morris shares plunged $14.75, to $49.38, and since the company is among the 30 firms whose stocks are in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, that bellwether index plummeted. A weak bond market and news that the unemployment rate remained at 7% in March helped intensify the rout...
...common note: they get no respect. "Clients figure if we were really good, we'd be out there making big money," says Maria Cavalluzzi, a Los Angeles public defender. In courthouse waiting areas -- known variously as the | Tombs, the Pits, the Tank -- defendants cavalierly dismiss their free counselors as "dump trucks," a term that reflects their view that public defenders are more interested in dumping cases than mounting rigorous defenses...
...begins in a place we've all been -- a hopeless traffic jam -- and it proposes a solution most of us have entertained: dump the damn car and proceed on foot. Of course, most people think twice. But the figure played by Michael Douglas, and identified (from his customized license plate) only as D-FENS, is not at the moment into mature reflection. Recently separated from his job and his wife, he's a bundle of hot-wired nerves. And today is his young daughter's birthday. He has not been invited to the party, but he means to crash...
...unfair, Ballot fraud and illegal voting are serious issues that should be addressed, but they simply are not related to Beys. The staff's legitimate disagreement with Beys' "old ideas of high-profile, high-risk, disaster-prone concerts and social events" does not give the staff a reason to dump all over the Council and the new chair, linking him to corruption that he is not even involved in. The staff should wait to see how the new chair and the Council perform this semester rather than using this election as a chance to take cheap shots against the Council...