Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tense and dreary experience. Thousands were dying of famine and purges and the country was wracked by economic and social chaos. Anxious to hide as much as possible from their foreign travelers. Soviet officials stopped the train at Baiku on the excuse that a log had fallen across the tracks--and held it there for 12 hours. "The result," Tuchman recalls, "was that we hit every station thereafter in the middle of the night--and didn't see anything...
Harvard's representatives have decided not to participate in next week's Boston-area campus "Week of Resistance" to the Solomon Amendment, a congressional proposal which links federal financial aid to draft registration, because plans for the college's portion of the events have fallen through, organizers said last week...
...lawmakers seemed to be representing a growing discontent on the part of their constituents. Public-opinion polls showed that confidence in Reagan's handling of foreign and defense policies had actually fallen during his monthlong hard-sell campaign on behalf of those policies. Some White House officials privately lamented that the President's "Darth Vader" speech of March 8, in which he denounced the U.S.S.R. as an "evil empire," and his star wars speech of March 23, in which he proposed what is widely regarded as a futile campaign to develop antimissile defenses, may have backfired...
Makers of fertilizers and pesticides will fare little better. In the past two years, U.S. use of fertilizers has fallen from 53.3 million tons to an estimated 43 million tons. This year industry experts estimate that even though many U.S. ammonic plants, which produce nitrogen fertilizer, have already been closed, those that remain will be operating at only 73% of capacity. As a result, prices are falling and profits are being squeezed. International Minerals and Chemical, a major fertilizer maker in Northbrook, Ill., will earn only about $3 per share this year, compared with $4.56 last year, according to Dean...
...Redemption through suffering? Renewal or rebirth? Tzili's baby dies in her womb. The only human being who reaches out a hand to her is a prostitute. As the two women stand side by side on a ship headed for Palestine, the injured adolescent suddenly says to the fallen woman, "What I'd like now is a pear." That is all that is left of desire in Tzili, and even the pear is not forthcoming...