Word: fallen
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...resident aliens of Portuguese descent. Some speak English only haltingly, and they wear earphones to hear a Portuguese translation of the proceedings. Their background has tugged hard at the seams of ethnic tranquillity in New Bedford, a onetime whaling capital and mill town that in recent years had fallen on difficult times. Portuguese Americans, who make up more than half of the population of 98,000, have played a major part in rejuvenating the local fishing industry. But following the attack, anti-Portuguese slurs popped up on local radio call-in shows, as well as in countless private conversations...
Smiling confidently, former President Leopoldo Fortunato Galtieri strode into the town-house headquarters of Argentina's Supreme Council of the Armed Forces in downtown Buenos Aires one morning last week and described his mood as "very good." By the time he left, night had fallen, and so had Galtieri's cheer. After nine hours of questioning by Argentina's highest military court, the army general who launched his country's disastrous 1982 war with Britain over the Falkland Islands was under formal arrest. Galtieri was soon joined by the other members of the military junta...
Plagued by a shortage of faculty and what some students complain is a lack of direction, Harvard has fallen behind other universities in Latin American Studies. But with increasing student interest and 20 years of rapid growth in the field, some hope that the College will be able to shore up a traditionally weak area...
...given BSA meeting, for example, if you were to ask how many students had fallen prey to harassment, you could probably count the unraised arms on one hand. "A lot of people who feel they've been harassed write it off as an isolated incident that's not going to happen again and then they're surprised at the number of other hands that go up," says Heather S. Johnston '86, a BSA member...
Republican strategy, according to Republican Lotterer, is to cast the races as a "Reagan vs. Mondale-O'Neill" contest. Lotterer says that the Democratic freshmen have simply fallen in lockstep behind effective Democratic party leader Rep. Thomas P. O'Neill Jr. (D-Mass.), whose old-fashioned liberalism he thinks is out of favor with much of the electorate...