Word: dropping
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...Jonathan Wetstein and his friends at Parsippany High School, N.J., made 01-01-01 TRUE MILLENNIUM T shirts, and plan to watch the ball drop in a pal's basement...
...methods to record and tally votes: 40 percent use optical scan devices (think of No. 2 pencils and the SATs); 18 percent use punch cards (think Palm Beach and Votomatics); 15 percent use '50s-era lever machines (flip the switches and pull the lever); 12 percent use paper ballots (drop them in a box or mail them in); 9 percent use electronic touch-screens; 2 percent use Data Vote, which is punch-card voting without the Votomatics...
...Jerusalem, resolving the status of the disputed Holy Sites in a bit of linguistic sophistry that fudges the question of sovereignty in a way that allows both sides to claim their demands have been satisfied. The deal, whose details are still being fiercely contested, would require the Palestinians to drop claims for the right of refugees to return to Israel. The negotiators are due to report back to President Clinton on Saturday, to assess the possibility of closing the gaps...
...With just five trading days left in the year, the Dow is down 10 percent, the biggest annual drop since 1977. The S&P 500 is off 14 percent, the most since 1974. After coughing up another 7 percent Wednesday, the NASDAQ's losses have hit 43 percent, which makes 2000 quite simply the tech index's worst year ever. For tech stocks, we're not talking bear, we're talking crash - a steady slide that started in March and is only picking up speed at year's end. All fall, traders talked about the need for "capitulation"; now they...
...thus that I have been entrusted with the dubious honor of writing the last Crimson column of the true millennium, a column whose subject is at the same time pre-determined and obsolete, a column of exactly one thousand words that will drop instantly from our printing press to our archives to blessed obscurity, as no one reads The Crimson on the last day before Winter Break. (Including...