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Word: dropping (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1990
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...vigil, sponsored by the Harvard Committee on Central America (COCA), was staged against a back-drop of eight white crosses, each representing one of the massacre victims. Earlier, COCA planted the crosses in the grass near Widener and wrote in chalk "74,000 dead in El Salvador" on the pavement in front of the steps...

Author: By Ivan Oransky, | Title: COCA Recalls Killings; 75 Attend Widener Vigil | 11/17/1990 | See Source »

Notwithstanding the benefits he may bring to the cough drop industry, Eggleston is a walking argument against student participation in the search. The selection of Harvard's next president requires calm deliberation, not petulant diatribes...

Author: By Mark J. Sneider, | Title: One Vote Against Democracy | 11/13/1990 | See Source »

...obey their commands than Gorbachev can enforce his decrees. Yeltsin and his aides proclaim continued readiness to join Gorbachev in some kind of coalition government of "national trust" to guide the Union through the wrenching transition to a market economy. The Yeltsinites insist, however, that any coalition must drop Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov. So far, Gorbachev has shown no disposition to dump...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union Time of Troubles | 11/12/1990 | See Source »

...industry is gradually concentrated in fewer hands, fares will tend to rise. Megacarriers facing less competition are also more likely to drop service to less profitable markets, depriving local residents of affordable transportation choices and hurting regional economies by choking off business travel. Says Christopher Witkowski, executive director of the Washington-based Aviation Consumer Action Project: "Passengers will be paying more for service that is of a decreasing quality." In the long run, the industry will regain its strength. Boeing chairman Frank Shrontz, who enjoys a bird's-eye view of the business, maintains that passenger-traffic growth will average...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trouble On The Horizon | 11/12/1990 | See Source »

...instance, she encouraged students to writeto the governor of Alaska, where overhunting hasdecimated the wolf population in the past year.She also invited audience members to drop by andvolunteer at a wolf sanctuary in the Sangre DeCristo Mountains in southern Colorado...

Author: By Susan M. Carls, | Title: Listeners Learn to Love Last Leaping Lupines | 11/10/1990 | See Source »

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