Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...taken the U.S. 18 years to discover what most Filipinos know: the Marcos dictatorship is filled with cruelties. Without American assistance, the government would have fallen long ago. America's belated awakening to Marcos' tyranny is a poignant testimony to the insensitivity that underlies American policy in this region...
Measles, mumps, rubella, whooping cough, diphtheria, polio. One by one in this century the scourges of youth have fallen before the marvel of vaccines. But there has been no similar victory against the last of childhood's common infectious diseases: chickenpox, or as it is known medically, varicella. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, the virus-caused illness strikes about 3 million youngsters each year, approximately as many children as there are babies born...
...mural has pretty much fallen out of favor in the art world," Valtierra says, adding that he hopes to have an opportunity to paint more examples of the form for use in public spaces...
...signal the U.S. that it will not do any business with the Reagan Administration. "You are dealing with a defiant and bitter Russian bear," says Dmitri Simes, a senior associate with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. "Everything they were trying to do internationally went wrong. They have now fallen back on a policy of assertive isolationism...
After thriving for years, the genre has fallen on hard times...