91.   UMass dropped like a rock in the polls, and South Carolina lost to Big South foes College of Charleston and North Carolina-Asheville.

92.   Until the lost art of the jump shot improves, zones will further inhibit scoring, which already is dropping like the tech sector.

93.   Yeltsin was dropped like a stone from power.

94.   Yet if fighting Modell in federal court means paying zillions of dollars in damages, his brethren would probably drop him like a Dave Krieg fumble.

95.   Without Stan Humphries, the San Diego Chargers drop like a rock.

96.   Glue is then allowed to dry up and drop off like autumn leaves - a kind of slow-action action photography.

97.   In Alberta, where health-care services have dropped like fallen soldiers due to funding cuts, telepsychiatry is an experiment its proponents say is here to stay.

98.   The country is just dropping like a stone.

99.   The Yanomami, never exposed to measles before, were dropping like flies just weeks before the researchers had intended to vaccinate some of them.

100.   Against expectations, however, the weather has remained relatively mild but that has not stopped the champions dropping like ninepins -- and all for different reasons.