Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Deng, who has himself fallen from power twice (in 1966 and 1976) and has twice recovered, is unlikely to extend his mercy to Jiang's partisans. A total of 33 leftists have been given long prison sentences in the past six months. Peking's leadership also issued an unpublished and unqualified addendum to the court's ruling: "Those who deserve to be punished will be punished...
...facts of life, albeit a lesser one: the hardest person for a teen-ager to talk to about sex is a parent. Dealing with that reality is difficult enough as it is. But now the Federal Government, and thus the courts, have fallen into this generational communication...
...numbers by which the networks measure their power-ratings, share points, Homes Using Television, demographics and the rest of the adspeak lexicon-are confusing and conflicting, but few network executives can take solace in them. The networks' portion of the total viewing audience has fallen from more than 90% in 1977 to 78% today, and a further drop of 8 to 14 points is expected by 1990. That is almost a quarter of the total market in twelve years. CBS, the prime-time champ since 1980, saw its 1982 ratings fall 5% from the year before; ABC lost...
Before the lecture. Burns said in an interview with reporters that he felt that Harvard was one of several law schools with a low proportion of minority professors. "I think in general American legal education has fallen far short of the mark in terms of its hiring practice in respect to educators and Harvard has to be included in that, but I don't think Harvard is unique," he said...
...from the airport, Thatcher met with a team of Treasury officials at her Downing Street office. Tired as she was, the Prime Minister was expected to apply another brisk dose of resolution to the pound's neurotic behavior. As her Treasury aides pointed out, inflation in Britain has fallen in the last year from 12% to about 6%. Government budget deficits have been brought under control, the trade balance is in healthy surplus, and unit labor costs are rising by a modest 5½% a year. Britain, said Tory Leader Cecil Parkinson, was "a very safe place to keep...