Word: droppingly
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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When the hotel's fire alarm accidently went off during his speech, Keverian quipped, "That's probably Mayor Hurly." Mayor Mary Hurly of Springfield has blamed the recent drop in his city's bond rating on the state's fiscal crisis...
...does not imply a rejection of Norville. "Whenever there's an anchor change on a broadcast, there's always a reaction," says Tom Capra, who took over as executive producer last month. "Part of the audience is happy, part of the audience is sad, and usually the ratings drop." CBS This Morning also has a new executive producer, who is expanding the show's feature and entertainment coverage; the hope is that a new co-anchor will lure viewers to sample the broadcast at a time when they might be shopping for alternatives...
Part of the reason for the current tenure debate is the 1986 federal law that eliminates mandatory retirement at age 70. The prospect of elderly -- and high-salaried -- professors hanging on until they drop at the lectern has some cost-conscious administrators worried. "With the uncapping of retirement, tenure becomes a guarantee of lifetime work," says James Vinson, president of the University of Evansville in Indiana. Many schools have begun to nudge older professors out the door with a variety of enticements. Johns Hopkins University decided three years ago to increase the basic pension payments of departing 65-year-olds...
...boost his already stratospheric approval ratings. True, he wanted to show his support for Colombian President Virgilio Barco's war against his country's entrenched cocaine processors. He also had some serious fence mending to do with Latin leaders aggrieved by the Panama invasion. But while the Cartegena drop-by took place on foreign soil, it was designed for domestic consumption. For Bush to score points at home, all he had to do was go a few rounds on the Medellin cartel's turf and come back alive. His bold posture is working: 60% of Americans polled last week...
...definitely losing our community," said Watson, the founder and director of Drop-A-Dime, a program which alerts police of reported crimes through a community-operated tip line...