Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...visitors were right in each of the final two games until the last shot and fallen, but came up short in each...
...like the love she sings of earlier, Carmen is a "rebellious bird/That you can never hope to tame" and before long the lovers quarrel. Suddenly, Escamillio, the matador, appears. Escamillio also has fallen madly in love with the enchantress since meeting her before her flight from Seville. He challenges Don Jose to yield Carmen but Don Jose, determined to hold onto the last strands of his dignity, refuses. Only when faced with the news that his mother is dying back home does Don Jose leave the smugglers. But all the while he vows to come back and reclaim Carmen...
...fifth-biggest export. But after peaking in 1978 at sales of $2.5 billion, Scotch has gone on the rocks. In a report issued last week' Britain's National Economic Development Office stated that distillers are working at about 50% of capacity and that industry employment has fallen by about...
Critics in Congress continue to question the regulators' handling of the Continental bailout. Last week Rhode Island Democrat Fernand St. Germain, chairman of the House Banking Committee, charged that federal regulators had drummed up support for the bailout by exaggerating the number of banks that would have fallen in a domino effect if Continental had been allowed to fail. As a result of congressional pressure to avoid such rescues, bankers believe First Chicago, because of its fundamental soundness, presented an opportunity for the Comptroller to clamp down without causing a widespread scare...
While sales of higher-priced varietal wines, named after specific grapes like the Cabernet Sauvignon and Pinot Noir, remain strong, low-cost generic labels, the Burgundies and Chablis produced by such vintners as Inglenook and Almaden, have fallen off. The price of a gallon jug of domestic wine sold in food stores has been cut in half since 1981, to about $3. Meanwhile, foreign vintners have flooded the U.S. Helped by a strong dollar that has made their wines cheaper for American buyers, foreigners boosted their share of the American market this year to more than 25%, up from...