Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...accuse!" The rallying cry of crusading reporters has been taken up in reply by a citizenry that seems more mistrustful than ever before. Public respect for journalism has fallen dramatically in recent years, threatening one of the foundations of the country's democratic system. The National Opinion Research Center, which found in 1976 that 29% of the population had "a great deal of confidence in the press," reports that this year that figure fell to a new low of 13.7%. The most vivid indication of the souring attitude toward the press came when the Reagan Administration invaded Grenada...
...supposed to begin this week with the first full meeting of the nine-member "advisory council" that will govern until elections can be held. But that session now seems in doubt since Alister Mclntyre, the Grenadian economist appointed by Governor-General Sir Paul Scoon to head the council, has fallen ill. He resigned his new post, and reportedly entered a Geneva hospital for eye surgery...
...biggest worry is tourism, which once represented 40% of Grenada's economy but which has fallen sharply over the past four years. Businessmen, hotelkeepers and restaurateurs are clamoring for funds to complete the airport that the Cubans were building at Point Salines. Grenadians say the airport is necessary to boost tourism, but so far the U.S. has balked at picking up a tab that could go as high as $90 million. The airport presents an uncomfortable irony. When it was being built by the Cubans, the U.S. condemned it as being essentially for military use and ridiculed the notion...
...script to fashion a big, bloody, entertaining tragicomedy that functions both as tabloid journalism (The Rise and Fall of a Drug King) and as cautionary fable. Tony Montana may be exterminated by the hired guns of a rival narcotics boss, but he is effectively dead long before that, fallen not into the gutter but facedown in a candy mountain of cocaine. He had broken the crime lord's first commandment-Don't get high on your own supply-and become a zombie before the first machine-gun blast ever...
...Soviet Union want to spend 78 million rubles (about $117 million) on a single cardiology complex? Answer: a Soviet epidemic of heart disease. As in the U.S., cardiovascular diseases are the U.S.S.R.'s No. 1 killer. In America over the past decade the death rate from stroke has fallen 37% and from heart attacks it has dropped by 25%, largely owing, many cardiologists believe, to an aggressive program for the treatment of hypertension. By contrast, the Soviet death rate from heart-related diseases more than doubled between 1960 and 1980. Among the causes, according to U.S. researchers: rampant alcoholism...