The Administration decided that the proposal would never succeed, and dropped it.

In 2006, however, the Administration of the College dropped the admission requirements to a 60 per cent highschool grade average.

Many rights advocates predicted when the Administration dropped the link that the result was unlikely to be improved treatment of dissidents.

Many people thought that in the face of such opposition, the Administration would quietly drop the Clipper proposal.

The Administration will drop opposition to loans to Vietnam from international lending institutions, officials say.

The Administration, which succeeded in killing the bill in the last Congress, recently dropped its opposition.

Mr. Clinton said today that the Administration dropped suggestions of exile to keep the talks alive.

To be sure, its costs were unconstrained and the Administration had dropped its fight to restrain them.

The Administration, which succeeded in blocking a similar measure in the last Congress, dropped its opposition this year.

The Administration has already quietly dropped that last part of the proposal.