Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even without its fallen leader, Harvard attacked from the outset, with substitute sweeper John Shue scoring the game-winner on a corner kick 16 minutes into the contest. Senior center forward Derek Mills swung the kick past MIT netminder Jack Olson. The loose ball was deflected by senior striker Nick D'Onofrio to Shue, who pounded a volley into the back of the open net for a 1-0 lead...
...into banditry of the kind that killed George Adamson. During similar attacks in July, two French tourists and an American woman were shot dead. Nevertheless, the animals are still more at risk than humans. Friends of Adamson say even some of the lions he raised and set free have fallen to poachers' bullets...
...still remember that sunny September day, the whizzing sound of German planes strafing defenseless refugees, exploding bombs, the stench of burning and dead horses at the roadside. I thought the heavens had fallen in on me. Relations between Lithuania and Poland were not very good, and we were held up at the border, adding to our sense of alarm and fear. We were convinced that we would return home soon, that a British-French offensive would enable the Polish army to go on fighting against the overwhelming forces of the enemy. Not for a moment did I think I would...
...seven years since its debt crisis first erupted, Mexico has struggled to make the economic reforms demanded by its creditors. The government has broken up some state monopolies, curbed subsidies and imposed such severe austerity measures that the country's standard of living has fallen below what it was a decade ago. Yet Mexico's economy has stagnated, largely because of its crushing debt burden (current total: $100 billion...
...asked for. Under the new agreement, "we shall not see spectacular results from night to morning," Salinas acknowledged in his broadcast. But the agreement produced an almost immediate benefit in restoring some confidence in Mexico's financial stability. Domestic interest rates, which had risen to 56% this year, have fallen 20 percentage points in the past three weeks because financiers anticipated the debt deal. That shift, which will reduce Mexico's cost of financing its budget deficits, gives the country another much needed boost toward new growth...