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Consider your favorite forest or hillside and imagine helicopters dropping heavily weighted wires and clear cutting everything in their path, plowing into the soil, but also taking out every bee, butterfly, bird, bush and bear, we wouldn't allow that on land, not for a minute, but this is what's happening in the ocean all day, every day.

Amanda Vincent

Found on CNN
2 years ago

That was a different world. I immediately thought,' this is not OK. Someone is going to die here, i've never seen a mass amount of bodies dropping that fast before.

Former Marine Lucas Naccarati

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I still write and direct and get all my projects in order and stuff. But then I also surf every day, i make myself surf every day. I don't know if dropping out is kind of the accurate word, but I kind of dropped out a little bit. I still love my creativity and my work. But I definitely live a very quiet lifestyle, where I surf, hang with my dog, hang with my nephews. Just keep it mellow.

Jonah Hill

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We're not holding anyone's hand into this experience, we are dropping you in the middle of a Native community -- and that's risky.

Sterlin Harjo

Found on CNN
2 years ago

If they had evacuated their villages, as the civil protection told them to, everything would have been burnt down – perhaps even two days sooner, of course, they never saw any water-dropping aircraft. And of course now the conditions are wrong for them to fly, due to the smoke.

Yiannis Katsikoyiannis

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

When Taylor Swift drops our name in the song, our brand becomes very, very relevant, it's a 40-plus year old brand that's all of a sudden relevant with her audience... thank you to Taylor Swift for dropping Olive Garden in her song.

Eugene Lee

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Although it was a great ‘problem’ to have at the time, it seems this summer has completely turned around that balance, and shelters are finding themselves at or almost at-capacity, in desperate need of adopters and/or fosters, we have a lot, and demand has been dropping.

Katy Hansen

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Since then, he has lied publicly over and over again in an attempt to walk back his original admission. Realizing his admission was insufficient to quell the public’s growing calls for accountability, he has since resorted to belligerent lies and a Trumpian refusal to stick to a single set of facts, he has also demonstrated a jaw-dropping ignorance of the sexual harassment law he signed into effect — without great fanfare — suggesting that his behavior is fine because he never meant to make women feel uncomfortable.

Debra Katz

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Delta has caused a whole lot of chaos, a whole lot of patients are suffering, their oxygen levels are dropping drastically daily -- there are patients that are suffering and there is no space in hospital, there is no ventilators available. It's complete chaos.

Mohammed Patel

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It would be unusually risky to take the sort of actions that The Russians claims to have taken -- including dropping bombs in front of a foreign vessel, the Russians have been working to push the narrative that Royal Navy acted provocatively and was driven away -- which might be both for domestic consumption and to reinforce international perceptions of Russia's red lines.

Sidharth Kaushal

Found on CNN
2 years ago

This [ rapid decline ] scares me, it's dropping so fast that it may be overreaching our ability to cope with the problems. I did not anticipate the bottom to drop this quickly, and we're only talking about Lake Mead.

John Fleck

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Coach Phelan is Mount St. Mary's basketball, i found out the news after dropping my daughters at school as I was driving to campus. I thought about how fortunate I am to coach at the place that Coach Phelan built and grateful that he built it on family. I get to share his desk and I get to coach in the gym that he changed lives in — what an honor.

Dan Engelstad

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

UK retail destinations suffered post Bank Holiday blues last week, with footfall dropping back by around half of the uplift recorded in the week before, when the school half-term holiday coincided with the Spring bank holiday and amazing weather.

Diane Wehrle

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

The NRA dropping New York AG lawsuit countersuit today in federal court is The NRA that their strategy would never prevail, the truth is that( NRA head) Wayne LaPierre and Wayne LaPierre lieutenants used The NRA as a breeding ground for personal gain and a lavish lifestyle. We were victorious against the organization's attempt to declare bankruptcy, and our fight for transparency and accountability will continue because no one is above the law.

Letitia James

Found on CNN
2 years ago

So far they have been dropping inside the lines, let’s see what happens next.

Henri Laaksonen

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We’re getting guys on — the timely hits just haven’t fallen for us like they have in the past, i think it’s only a matter of time before those big hits that we need to pile it on will start dropping again.

Josh Rojas

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We haven't seen the full effect of radio dropping his music from playlists. Radio is a really powerful driver of consumption, so it's possible that will end up in decreasing streaming and sales eventually.

Hannah Karp

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

I'm so honored that Dave chose Southern Smoke as his charity, now, more than ever, with indoor dining shut down in many parts of the country and temperatures dropping to prohibit outdoor dining, food and beverage industry employees are desperate.

Chris Shepherd

Found on CNN
3 years ago

It speaks volumes when your goal is to make it more difficult for people to vote, it probably speaks that they are not really happy with your policies, so here in Minnesota, we will still count all the votes, the system is still secure, those ballots will be segregated and I think this will obviously go up further through the judiciary to get a decision. But at this point in time, people can avoid all this by simply going and dropping their ballots off in person.

Tim Walz

Found on CNN
3 years ago

One of the big concerns on all of the election officials minds around the country is we don't know what October is going to hold and if there's going to be a resurgence of Covid or anything like that, which would cause people to start dropping out en masse again, but we're cautiously optimistic.

David Garreis

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Instead of just dropping the social justice thing, you can tell they're committed because they're still doing it.

Ashland Johnson

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We know that women still shoulder the majority of the responsibility for care work. When these care work demands go up it's totally reasonable to assume that this falls more to women than men, women will see income declines, because of cutting back hours and some will just end up dropping out.

Heidi Shierholz

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I don't think anyone can listen to Antonio Arnelo Smith crying and wailing the agony Antonio Arnelo Smith's in without their heart dropping.

Nathaniel Haugabrook II

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The numbers are jaw dropping and it is alarming.

President Donald Trump

Found on CNN
4 years ago

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