Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Three minutes later, radar showed that the airliner had fallen to 5,000 meters (16,400 ft.), halfway to the sea. Within another two minutes, a second Soviet plane showed up at the same site on radar screens. At 2:38 p.m., twelve minutes after being hit, Flight 007 dropped off the screens...
...double those produced in Peru and Bolivia, where coca is grown legally. Colombian smuggling groups anticipated the record crop by upping the refining capacities of their labs. "They've overproduced, like General Motors turning out too many Chevrolets," says Nehrbass. Coke's wholesale price in Colombia has fallen from $22,000 to $9,000 in the past year. To reduce inventories, drug wholesalers must move their shipments fast; processed coke is highly perishable. Hauling large amounts makes them vulnerable to seizures. Since June 17 the National Narcotics Border Interdiction System has recovered more than 7,000 Ibs., most...
...however, the work-sharing scheme has fallen well short of expectations. Although planners had predicted the moves would quickly create 70,000 jobs, an independent study released in May put the actual number of new positions at between 15,000 and 30,000. "We found that there is a very weak link between the reduction in the work week and increased employment," said Economist Olivier Marchand, one of three authors of the study. Some two-thirds of the 3,700 firms surveyed said they had not added a single new worker since the work week was shortened. Meanwhile, the French...
...rekindle hope that the batterer will change and remain loving. Karla Digirolomo, 26, executive director of the New York State Governor's Commission on Domestic Violence, describes her experience in her first marriage as typical. When she was pregnant her husband broke her nose. She told everyone she had fallen down. The obstetrician never questioned the bruises on her body. "I felt worthless, totally to blame, responsible for my husband's actions. I kept thinking, 'If I had done something different, things would improve.' You gradually change. You think, 'If I can stop doing x, y or z, then nothing...
Historically, batterers have fallen between the cracks, being neither nuts nor criminals, at least by the standards of the day. "A man beats up his wife because he can," says University of Rhode Island Sociologist Richard Gelles, one of the pioneers in the study of family violence. Indeed, a man usually does not beat up his boss or male acquaintances. The consequences?loss of job, a charge of criminal assault, an old-fashioned black eye?are simply too great. Now the consequences are rising for violence against one's wife. Shelters for abused women have created a safety...