Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mighty have fallen...
...staggering in a profound crisis that threatens the country's political and social stability. Inflation is running at 60%. More than half the population is unemployed or working at marginal, unskilled jobs like selling tortillas on street corners. The value of the peso against the dollar has fallen by 80% since the beginning of the year. Teetering on the edge of national bankruptcy, Mexico can no longer meet the payments on its enormous $80 billion foreign debt, the largest of any developing nation, without new emergency loans. The U.S. has become deeply concerned out of fear that Mexico...
...costs are falling steadily. In the past four weeks the prime has declined to 13.5%. The federal-funds rate, which is the interest that banks pay for borrowed money overnight, has plunged from 14.58% at the end of June to 9%. The rates that most consumers pay have not fallen nearly...
...victim of an accidental Israeli bomb drop in East Beirut. President Reagan cited the picture in his talks with Israeli Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir as an example of why Jerusalem had to stop the bombing of the city. In their defense the Israelis claim that no bomb had fallen in East Beirut and that the child, in truth, had been hit by a P.L.O. shell. Although the U.P.I, stood by the accuracy of its caption, the news agency was looking further into the matter...
...best team that money can buy") to a gang of anxious neurotics who wonder what each night's line-up card will look like. They speculate who the next target of George's wrathful attention will be. Once it was Reggie Jackson. Now Tommy John has fallen from grace. Wistful, disgusted, the players sit in the locker room and talk pre-emptively of getting the hell out, of following Reggie to Anaheim, or anywhere. And it is still only the middle of August...