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drop-outs

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1.drop-outs - A variety of "power glitch" (see glitch); momentary 0 voltage on the electrical mains.
2.drop-outs - Missing characters in typed input due to software malfunction or system saturation (one cause of such behaviour under Unix when a bad connection to a modem swamps the processor with spurious character interrupts; see screaming tty).
3.drop-outs - Mental glitches; used as a way of describing those occasions when the mind just seems to shut down for a couple of beats. See glitch, fried.


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Among the 212,000 drop-outs in 2004/05, nearly two-thirds, or 135,000, were men.
Drop-out rates declining, women and Atlantic provinces lead the way by Community Action
McIntire presents his survey comparing responses of 450 college drop-outs with 450 successful college students.
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