Word: droppingly
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...name on the center of undergraduate activity on campus. The student center proposed by Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57, if built, should be named after Roosevelt, rather than some oil-rich Texan couple or arms-dealing Iranian expatriate seeking the luster of the Harvard name to drop during fashionable Cambridge cocktail parties...
...halted construction of the Tellico Dam in Tennessee. Last week a panel of federal scientists called for a halt to logging on up to 40% of the national forest land in Oregon, Washington and California to keep the owl from becoming extinct. An estimated 1,700 pairs survive, a drop of more than half the population since 1800. Even with protection, the slow-breeding owl would take a century to increase to 2,200 pairs...
...Central Hospital, contends that in the past 18 months, there has been a dramatic rise in cases of thyroid disease, anemia and cancer. Residents also have begun complaining of fatigue and loss of vision and appetite -- all symptoms of radiation sickness. Worst of all, there has been a startling drop in the immunity level of the entire population. "Healthy people are having trouble getting over their illnesses," Lysovsky notes. And children are the most affected...
Each of the student-run counseling groups has extensive and varying "hotline" hours, sometimes all night, when students can call or drop-in to talk...
While counselors say a 12-hour overnight shift staffing a hotline typically turns up only a handful of callers or drop-ins, they say they are not sure whether that is a positive or negative reflection on the Harvard community...