Word: drop-off
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...Griswold says that the Commonfund has seen a drop-off in shareholder responsibility issues in the 1990s, since no single issue dominates anymore, as apartheid did in the 1980s—now concerns are spread more widely over tobacco, alcohol, child and slave labor, and weapons production...
...there other factors? Defense attorneys might offer a different argument: Since the bulk of the drop-off in juvenile crime predates most states? embrace of harsher penalties for young offenders, it is disingenuous to assume any connection between...
...companies retracting their offers while others are still thrusting bonuses into students' hands. "This year was going gangbusters," says C. Randall Powell, director of the placement office for Indiana University's Kelley Business School, which serves some 1,350 undergraduate seniors. "But this spring we quickly noticed a significant drop...
...some talented kids, but it's certainly not going to happen overnight," Harvard Coach Katey Stone said. "They're going to have to be patient and not get discouraged, and every once in a while you might see some of that and that's where the drop-off comes from. But B.C.'s definitely headed in the right direction...
...After two days of intense arm-twisting - and amid no discernible drop-off in criticism from grumbling politicians - California is now the proud owner of a $10 billion bond-issue plan that walks like a bailout of the state's near-bankrupt utilities, and quacks like a bailout of the state's near-bankrupt utilities. And certainly the protesters' signs say it's a bailout...