Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...threatens the immense popularity he has recently gained after 10 years of unrivaled performing and recording. Nebraska, released last week, is a compelling and daring solo effort featuring the most severe music of Springsteen's career; with rarely more than an acoustic guitar, Springsteen confronts his America and its fallen characters in a most disturbing, direct and effective...
Hardington was one of five freshmen Shattuck selected for the starting lineup. "I picked the team I thought would do best against UConn," Shattuck said. He added that the younger players "had fallen into the trap of getting overanxious" against the Huskies deliberate style of play...
...vengeance-bent Gemayel clan or from the militia run by Major Sa'ad Haddad, which is based in southern Lebanon and is closely alh'ed with the Israelis. The Lebanese Forces would be the more logical culprits, since they live in the region and were in mourning for their fallen leader. On the other hand, there were reports that a group of Haddad's men were seen in the vicinity of the camps on the day of the murders...
...baseball box scores. For three years, the cost of borrowing money has been painfully high and shockingly erratic. This summer, however, the news from the money market has been good enough to cheer about. Since July, the prime rate that banks charge for short-term corporate loans has fallen from 16.5% to 13.5% and aroused hopes for a sustained decline in interest costs...
Consumers have less reason than businessmen to be hopeful about the cost of borrowing. The average rate on an automobile loan has fallen only half a percentage point, to 17.1%, since last November. Long-term fixed-rate mortgages have dipped from 18% to as low as 15% in some parts of the U.S., but are unlikely to fall issue more. Banks and savings and loan associations are reluctant to issue cheap long-term mortgages for fear that short-term money rates will surge anew and drive up the interest they must pay on deposits...