Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that the French face more, not less, belt tightening. Said he: "Next year will be very difficult. The choice is not between maintaining or increasing purchasing power, but between its maintenance and its amputation." Thanks in part to that kind of gloomy prognostication, Barre's approval rating has fallen even lower than Giscard...
...cost $1 million and took up to five years to bring a drug through the Federal Drug Administration's regulatory maze. It now costs $18 million and can take ten years. As a result, the number of new drugs introduced by U.S. pharmaceutical firms has fallen off 50%. Writes British Essayist Henry Fairlie: "The once rambunctious American spirit of innovation and adventurousness is today being paralyzed by the desire to build a risk-free society...
Handlin has sharp words for those who have fallen prey to the theory-without-evidence mode of historical accounting. He believes in sticking to the facts--even though at times the "provable facts" were actually incorrect. Works such as U.B. Phillips' American Negro Slavery, written in 1929, distorted the facts of history when they included as a "proven fact" that blacks were racially inferior. Although we are never told quite why, Handlin finds these illusions forgivable...
...Both statistically and emotionally today's game is more than crucial. After four weeks with an unsettled and unsettling quarterback situation, the position is still up in the air, but the Dartmouth game comes at a time when the Crimson must enter the Renaissance or champions have fallen a long way in a short time as last year's Big Green squad surprised everyone with a 6-1 record...
Dartmouth will take Soldiers Field today with a 0-3-1 record overall and an 0-2 mark in the Ivy League. Last year's Ivy champions have fallen a long way in short time as last year's Big Green squad suprised everyone with a 6-1 record...