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- noun Plural form of
dropout .
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Examples
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If we eliminate the high-school dropouts from the unemployed number and the "normal" base of unemployement (4 – 5% are ALWAYS unemployed), then the 10% rate is not so bad.
CNN Poll: Weak economic numbers dovetail with public perception 2009
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Jobless rate for recent high school dropouts is 55.1 percent, compared with 35.0 percent for high school graduates not enrolled in college.
Mike Green: NFTE: Injecting Entrepreneurship into Inner City Education (VIDEO) Mike Green 2010
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In other words, taking in more dropouts is a short-sighted method of boosting recruitment numbers.
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In other words, taking in more dropouts is a short-sighted method of boosting recruitment numbers.
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In other words, taking in more dropouts is a short-sighted method of boosting recruitment numbers.
VDARE.com: Blog Articles » Print » Army Getting Lower IQ Recruits 2008
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We have a creationist nutcase who ran the board that drew up the criteria for teaching biology (Thank Someone that the lege rejected him when Goodhair tried to appoint him chairman of the board looking into social sciences.), we have a certified group of nutcases trying to do a George Orwell on history, we lead the nation in dropouts, our schools are severely underfunded (except for the football teams) and it goes on and on and on.
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This would appear to be reinfored by the fact that it's an older Klein, and as such is equipped with rear-entry horizontal dropouts, which is not nearly as sordid as it sounds and makes it ripe for fixed-gear conversion.
Evolving or Devolving? From Comebacks to CamelBaks BikeSnobNYC 2008
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Ms. Kondracke calls the dropouts "our next class of nonperforming assets."
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This would appear to be reinfored by the fact that it's an older Klein, and as such is equipped with rear-entry horizontal dropouts, which is not nearly as sordid as it sounds and makes it ripe for fixed-gear conversion.
Archive 2008-09-01 BikeSnobNYC 2008
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Despite the boom, high-school dropouts -- in other words, the working poor -- saw their wages fall 5 percent during the 1990s, partly because of a greater supply of cheap labor.
alexz commented on the word dropouts
in cycling, dropouts are slots in a bike frame where the back wheels are attached. This allows the back wheel to slide out of the bike frame when the fasteners are loosened off.
January 12, 2013
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