Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fault divorce laws -- passed in 43 states, largely in response to feminist demand -- have benefited men and impoverished women. Weitzman found that as a result of these laws, which largely eliminated alimony and often forced the sale of the family home, women and their children typically suffer a 73% drop in their standard of living after a divorce while the ex-husband's living standard jumps...
...Deputy Premier Jaromir Zak said on state-run TV that after long discussion, it was decided to drop the article enshrining the leading role of the Communists in the constitution from a new draft of the document...
...invasion were ever officially questioned, it would be the Jakes regime's death warrant. This week East Germany's Communist Party chief Egon Krenz will be in Prague for a visit with Jakes. Sources in Berlin intimate that Krenz will try to persuade the Czechoslovak leader to drop his hard line. The trip, said East German Foreign Minister Oskar Fischer, may just have a "stimulating effect...
...think so. That tremendous social explosion came about because of the dammed-up frustration of the past eight years, the decline in living standards. Now, this year, in Venezuela we're going to have a dramatic drop, almost 10%, in our gross national product as a result of our adjustment measures. If we don't straighten out this situation, if we don't have the resources to confront this violent decline, the social situation will reach intolerable extremes. And it's not just us; all the countries of Latin America are suffering...
...tapes to capture the subject's voice -- one of his strengths, he believes. A couple of months into a collaboration, he begins showing the subject drafts of chapters. The subject usually offers changes and comments ("Bill, this stinks!" scrawled Iacocca). Novak tries to incorporate the lively ones and drop the dull...