Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...great strides of economic development, just as Marshall Plan aid was splendidly effective in helping to restore the war-battered economies of Western Europe. But economic development presupposes skills, motivations, ethical standards and discipline that are lacking in most underdeveloped countries. Accordingly, the results of economic aid have fallen far short of the early expectations...
...have rumbling optimism." The optimism, however, is restrained: stability rather than boom is the general expectation. And stability, though preferable to a recession, is nothing to cheer about in an economy that has not boomed for five years. Says Swift & Co. Chief Economist Willard Arant: "Economists have fallen into the bad habit of thinking that if we stay even, then we aren't in a recession. But when you don't measure up to a growth trend, you are actually falling back...
Both teams were expected to be serious contenders for the title, but a weak and demoralized Crimson team fell easily to the Little Three early in the season, and then dropped close games to Dartmouth and Penn. The Bruins have also fallen twice, but with a record of 3-2-1 remain slightly ahead of Harvard...
...Dictator Vulko Chervenkov, and six other bigwigs were being fired as Stalinists. Yugov was slapped under house arrest, accused of ordering the executions of "numerous honest and innocent comrades." Only three years ago, the Bulgarian regime had tried to emulate the Chinese "great leap forward" and also had fallen flat on its face. Now it was Khrushchev's turn to pick up the pieces...
Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, who has long directed his salty criticism at inadequate U.S. schools and at unimaginative military brass, last week zeroed in on U.S. business. Industry has fallen dangerously short of meeting the exacting technological standards of the nuclear age, said the father of the nuclear submarine to a meeting of the American Society for Metals...