Word: fall
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...highly unusual show of fiscal solidarity, the U.S. Treasury today launched a selloff of its own currency, hoping that driving down the dollar would arrest the fall of the yen. "The Japanese recession has set off alarm bells in Washington," says TIME correspondent Bruce Van Voorst. "If the yen continues to fall, it will put pressure on China and other Asian economies to devalue their currencies to remain competitive, and that would have a disastrous effect on the already huge U.S. trade deficit...
...taboo now, I mean with all the teenage pregnancies." But she also says that "it's creepy and kind of scary that it seems to be happening so early, and all this talk about it." She adds, "Girls are jumping too quickly. They figure if they can fall in love in a month, then they can have sex in a month too." When she tried discouraging a classmate from having sex for the first time, the friend turned to her and said, "My God, Shana. It's just...
...animation arena has eroded since its Lion King days and that its theme parks face newly ferocious rivals and, perhaps as a result, deliver lower profit margins than they once did. ABC, snapped up by Eisner back in 1995, has suffered its own turmoil and a ratings free fall (this past season brought the network the indignity of finishing behind Fox in the 18-to-49 demographic). The launch of Disney's cruise line has been delayed by shipyard snafus...
...while taking the stairs may be good for your heart, you won't have to do it for fear the elevator will fall--another dire bit of misinformation making the Y2K rounds. "An elevator doesn't need to know the date to go up and down, so we never put date-sensitive controls in there," says Peter Kowalchuk, a spokesman for Otis Elevator Co. Other major elevator makers have issued similar disclaimers...
...Most Wanted, for instance, could be a topic on Oprah's show: the book is about Texas Teenagers Who Fall Desperately in Love with Convicts--and it's about childless mothers and motherless children. Dorman has said she and Mitchard raced the clock to get the book into the hands of beach readers. The haste shows. Predictable and melodramatic, The Most Wanted lacks the depth of The Deep End of the Ocean, which was a moving portrait of a family in the aftermath of a child's kidnapping...