Word: fallen
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REDUCED R. AND D. Spending on research and development has dropped from about 3% of G.N.P. in 1964 to 2% last year. One reason: managers have concluded that inflation makes the payoff too long-term and too uncertain. One result: the number of U.S. patents issued to Americans has fallen 25% since 1971, while the number issued to foreigners has risen...
...those children, Elie Wiesel, led the commission on to Birkenau, the neighboring camp, where crematories once burned night and day. Linking arms with four other survivors, Wiesel marched over the tracks that had brought him here a world ago and laid a wreath on a monument to the fallen. "Do not let your eyes deceive you," he said quietly...
Consumers cannot spend big because personal income has fallen behind the pace of inflation for five of the past six months. In addition, consumer confidence has been badly eroded...
...Brien was a figure of unintentional transition. After the war directors like Roberto Rossellini and Vittorio De Sica took kids right off the streets of Rome. In England, Director Carol Reed put Bobby Henrey in Graham Greene's exacting psychological study, The Fallen Idol, which was about the abrupt and shattering end of childhood...
...camaraderie with the secret police. After all, Soviet society, including the literary salons, was riddled with spies, as Nadezhda Mandelstam, the widow of the Russian poet Osip Mandelstam, recalled in her magnificent memoir Hope Against Hope. Had Mayakovsky not tak en his own life, he would surely have fallen victim to such informers, as Mandelstam and hundreds of other writers did during the Great Purges of the late '30s. But who could be held accountable for his actions? asked Nadezhda Mandelstam. Her answer may apply to all the characters in the pitiful drama that is played out in this...