Downing Street is understood to be behind the decision to shelve plain packaging, which has been clearly heading for the Whitehall long grass ever since a bill on the topic was dropped from the Queen's speech in May.
Instead, she went, as planned, to a commercial break, Gardner disappeared, and the topic was dropped.
Most of the studies (1491) produced by our initial search were dropped because their topics were clearly irrelevant to the current project.
In this paper, I define economic literacy, explain why the first economics course should target economic literacy, provide suggestions as to which topics should be dropped from the literacy-targeted course, and explain how to use reclaimed class time to promote economic literacy.
Soon enough, the topic of apocalypse was dropped from Camping's show and things normalized.
Additionally, the "topic of your choice prompt" has been dropped, prompting (pardon the pun) some criticism from college counselors who claim that this will "limit the freedom of the essay".
Since the groups spanned two lectures with different midterm and final exams, there were two question pairs for each topic (eight original pairs, but one was dropped after final exam grading, as the wording of the question was ambiguous).
Among the topics: Teller's dealings with J. Robert Oppenheimer; the efficacy of Ronald Reagan's antimissile defense program; and whether the atomic bomb should have been dropped on Japan.
From September, AQA – the largest exam board for sociology A-levels – is dropping the topic from its syllabus and removing references to it from textbooks.
Evidence is also emerging that prosecutors are dropping the ball on the topic.
Four topics are considered.
