Word: dropping
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Robinson decided to run after discussions with Michael Sullivan, Plymouth County district attorney, who has long been considered a potential Kennedy opponent. Sullivan decided to drop out of the campaign, after seven months of trying to form a campaign team...
...heading back to the station, located at 29 Garden St., to drop off his sector keys. Each of the officers on duty has sector keys that allow them to enter public areas in the dorms in case of emergency. The superintendents usually leave at around 5 p.m., and the security guards are on duty until 1 a.m. The officers wouldn't have to wait for the superintendent or security guards. They don't have access to student rooms...
...next presidency. The problem is partly a product of the new pattern of U.S. manufacturing: Some 40 percent of U.S. imports are goods manufactured overseas by U.S. corporations. "The best hope for relief is that Japan, China and other Asian governments manage to revive their economies and drop remaining trade barriers so that they buy more goods and services from the U.S.," says Baumohl. But while America waits and hopes for that to happen, says Baumohl, the trade deficit "may well be interpreted as a sign the U.S. economy is growing too fast." In other words, that times have been...
...also not entirely new; Britain since the '60s has had its highly regarded Open University, an increasingly Internet-oriented, low-cost institution where lectures are given over TV channels and assignments are handed in via e-mail.) "I have a feeling that $100 million will be a mere drop in the bucket," says Quittner. But assuming the school comes to fruition, it could easily attract investors with the lure of say, advertising banner space. In the end, the biggest roadblock may be technological. "Distance learning won't be ideal until major technological hurdles crumble, until we have super-fast connections...
...from," says Carolyn Aldige, president of the Cancer Research Foundation of America. Provided it's caught in its earliest, most treatable stages, colorectal cancer is curable more than 90% of the time. If more people underwent routine screening to find small tumors, experts estimate, the death toll would drop 50% to 75%, saving around 30,000 to 40,000 lives a year...