Word: dropping
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...School officials say this adds up to inflated failure rates. They had been expecting a drop in scores, but the decline was even steeper than they had anticipated...
...discouraging to drop those games," Corkery said. "They were all such close matches. Ending the year with a loss to Columbia would have been awful [had the team not gone to NCAAs...
...White House had been a struggle to raise. Funds ran out, materials and workmen ran thin. Scottish stone carvers had to be enticed to America. A whorehouse sprang up among the construction shacks, and federal commissioners wanted it torn down, only to drop the complaint when carpenters protested. President Washington made sure the White House was built, bolstering his determination with inspections of the site...
What happened next has Democrats still baffled. The man who was willing to fight so long and work so hard and campaign until he dropped seemed in a hurry to drop out. He had been up for 50 hours straight by this time. But Tipper was ready to hold on a while longer, and so were some other aides, including former chief of staff Jack Quinn, who was in the lobby on the phone. Lieberman too wanted to fight. Brazile got an e-mail from her assistant saying it had been called. She wrote back, "Never surrender...
...Right before junior year, I decided to drop soccer and play football," Morris said. "I didn't tell my parents until right before summer practice began...