Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...actual roll call proved anticlimactic. The final tally, before Hart made the traditional motion for a unanimous decision, was Mondale, 2,191; Hart, 1,200; Jackson, 465. Mondale had fallen just nine votes shy of the 2,200 targeted by his staff and was a comfortable 224 votes above a majority...
...firemen managed to bring the blaze under control. They also succeeded in preventing the fire from spreading through the rest of the church. As daylight crept into the now roofless transept, the full scope of the tragedy became apparent: littered with six-foot-high piles of charred debris and fallen beams, the area resembled nothing so much as a bombed-out shell. But the destruction had been limited. Five-sixths of the church, including a huge wooden sculpture of the Virgin and Child, remained unharmed. Best of all, the minster's priceless medieval stained glass largely escaped serious damage...
...Said he: "When the expansion in the U.S. economy slows down in the foreseeable future, Europe and Japan are likely to take on more importance as the sustaining force in the world economy." Moreover, European growth is taking place at the same time that the average inflation rate has fallen from 7.1% in 1983 to 5.5% this year. While the recovery was at first pushed forward by private consumption and housing starts, it is currently being driven by exports and private investment...
...annual rate of 9.7% in the first quarter and an estimated 5.7% in the second, the U.S. gross national product is expected to increase some 5.5% during all of 1984, or more than twice as much as the average for other industrial countries. U.S. inflation, meanwhile, has fallen to less than 5%. Last week the Government reported that wholesale prices did not increase in June, the third month in a row of no change...
...utilities to produce cheap power. Finally, recession cut into demand for industrial and residential electricity and left many utilities with too much capacity, even before the completion of then- new generators. During the 1970's, consumer demand rose 7% annually. By 1983, though, the yearly rise had fallen to about 2%. Meanwhile, the stocks of the utilities dropped way off in value, to between a third and a half of what they once were, and Moody's and other rating services have been downgrading the once sterling utility bonds...