Observing that the Senate had dropped without debate a provision that would have limited President Bush's authority to conduct missile defense tests and passed a resolution on the use of force against terrorists with a "paucity of debate," Mr. Byrd said the practice had "put a zipper on our lips".
I've long thought he ran a kind of extortion racket, filing class-actions suits against companies whose stock had dropped — without a shred of evidence that any wrongdoing had taken place — and then torturing them with motions, discovery and depositions until they settled.
Daughter Vivian (Dominik Garcia-Lardo) has dropped out of college without telling her parents and works as a stripper (also not something she's shared with them).
Reporters Without Borders has dropped Hong Kong on its ranking of press freedom to No. 58, from No. 18 in 2002.
The number of people without insurance has dropped sharply, the quality of care hasn't suffered, and the program's cost has been very close to initial projections.
Adams was investigating allegations that the association, which is known as AIBA (the group has dropped "Amateur" from its name without dropping the extra "A" from its acronym), had conspired to fix the Olympics.
A12 The Demise of the Outhouse The Census Bureau says the number of houses without plumbing has dropped below one million for the first time, to 671,000, and below 1percentto to 0.64percentt, for the first time, too.
Genevieve M. Kenney, an economist at the Urban Institute here, said, "The percentage of poor children without coverage has dropped back to where it was in 1996," the year Congress passed a landmark law limiting access to welfare.
Since 1990, they point out, the number of unmarried individuals going without sex has dropped from 65 to 50percentt of women and from 45 to 40percentt of men.
