Word: droppingly
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Overwhelming pressure from its wealthy Brattle St. neighbors had already forced the private elementary school--whose student body was more than 90 percent minority--to sell its Cambridge building after only one year of limited operation. Forced to relocate into Boston, the school had already seen its enrollment drop to a handful of students...
...just this sort of efficiency that enabled Cohen to save Perspective from its dire financial straits. During the interview, he tosses about budget figures for the liberal monthly and other publications the way social climbers drop names...
...goal of its first-ever Ivy title behind strong goaltending by junior BETH REILLY, who skies for a save against Cornell. KATIE ORENSTEIN and the women's swimming team, looking ahead to defending its Eastern title, got upset by Princeton at Blodgett in February. The Crimson also would drop Easterns to Penn State. Freshman ERIKA ELMUTS shows off her backhand during the Crimson's eighth consecutive Ivy-title winning season. Harvard linebacker CRAIG PECK shows this Brown wide receiver how to tackle "between the numbers" on this pass in the football team's 27-14 win over the Bruins...
...ratings, Diane. No, not just ABC vs. CBS vs. NBC. Since January there has been a dramatic and inexplicable falloff in all TV viewing. Overall, almost 4% of the audience seems to have vanished overnight. The drop is even greater for network viewing and for the demographic group that advertisers value most: adults between 18 and 49. Worse, the news comes just when the networks are getting ready to sell commercial spots for the fall season...
Network researchers suggest that viewers are just getting tired of pushing those buttons. Crazier things have happened. In 1975 Nielsen showed another alarming drop in viewership. Turned out the problem was the glue attaching the meters to the TV set. As the sets heated up, the glue cracked and the meters disconnected...