Word: dropping
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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About halfway through the protest, BGAN delivered a letter of demands to a Pfizer vice president, including demands to drop the prices of the drug and to relinquish the patent...
...Apparently, we celebrated too soon. In Africa, AIDS deaths have reached truly epidemic proportions. Yes, 3.8 million new cases were diagnosed in 2000 versus 4 million in 1999, but that drop is due to the fact that infections have simply reached a saturation point; so many are already infected that the initial case reports were bound to slow down eventually...
...calls. What should I do? First, I could leave my laptop in mid-sentence and run to the bathroom. Second, I could close my laptop and attempt to cover it with loose papers and my jacket. Third, I could take my laptop into the bathroom and try not to drop it. Yet, should I not have a fourth option? Should I not be able to leave my laptop open, leisurely stroll to the bathroom, use the hand dryer twice, check e-mail on the way back and not worry about my laptop mysteriously disappearing from the desk...
...Education is a local issue; school committees around the nation have a great deal of control over their curricula, teaching styles and extracurricular activities. As a result, the decisions made by local school committees are one of the most important influences on the lives of students. The choice to drop a course, revamp a schedule, cut a budget or add an after-school activity can have a huge impact on students' daily lives...
...strict teachers feel threatened by students. The school committee controls the broad agenda of the school's educational mission overall. Students should have some influence over that agenda. CRLS is facing a difficult and challenging time. After a comprehensive redesign that has caused morale among some veteran teachers to drop and nightmarish scheduling problems, the high MCAS failure rates were another blow to the institution. The huge number of students who boycotted the test is not the end of the story--among students who did take the exam, scores were lower than the year before in both math and English...