Word: dropping
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...spasm of grief Missouri voters elect Carnahan (the deadline for changing the ballot passed on Friday), Wilson, a Democrat, will have the power to appoint a two-year replacement. Wilson, by the way, is not in the contest to succeed Carnahan, having already decided to drop out of politics to become an investment banker...
...What are you going to do about me, the middle-class taxpayer? What are you going to for me, the pill-popping senior who doesn't know how I'm going to pay for it? Me, me, me - it'd be great to see a candidate drop the pretense and just wade into the crowd writing checks...
Ultimately, however, the real beneficiary of a USPS-FedEx alliance will be the Memphis-based powerhouse. Besides gaining access to that "last mile" to Aunt Edna's mailbox, FedEx could leverage the arrangement by planting drop-off boxes in post-office lobbies. Even if government regulators limit the combination on antitrust grounds, FedEx is steaming ahead with other joint ventures, including a deal with the French postal agency La Poste. Fred Smith has already proved FedEx's global fortitude. Most analysts see his domestic strategy as a shrewd way to position his 29-year-old company for what many believe...
...need to lose weight, don't try to drop more than a pound or two a week. It takes patience, but such slow progress is safer than crash dieting and more likely to produce lasting changes...
...with fertile females, but whether he will be accepted into a pod is impossible to predict. He also has to "unlearn" what he was taught during his long years in captivity. Bit by bit, he has had to be distanced from humans, and his trainers reluctantly have had to drop, albeit gradually, the affectionate fuss they made over him. Physically, too, Keiko has had to be conditioned for a different life. The easy parts were training him to swim faster and for longer periods and, using weighted balls placed at different depths, to dive ever deeper. It was trickier...