Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...remains in good form for a person of his age. But he is surely aware that his political power, especially among the young, is on the wane. He can afford to allow university students to let off steam occasionally in pursuit of democracy or in memory of a fallen hero. The test will come if, when the ceremonies for Hu are past, the engine of protest should suddenly roar out of control...
...says Lipper Analytical's Long, who argues that brokerages would need to dismiss 12,000 to 17,000 more employees to keep profits from sinking further. Other analysts expect a steady decline in the number of investment firms. Since the crash, membership on the New York Stock Exchange has fallen from 392 companies to 365, a decline of nearly 7%. The dropouts have either closed their doors or merged with stronger firms...
...offer faces choppy weather. Davis, a billionaire oilman, acknowledges that the buyout hinges on whether he can raise enough cash. While he claims that he can, several of his highly publicized takeover attempts have fallen through. Among them: his $3.8 billion bid for CBS in 1986. Some airline-industry experts argue, moreover, that NWA is worth about $3 billion, or at least $100 per share. Analysts estimated that the company's Pacific routes and real estate holdings, including $500 million worth of property in Japan, have a value of $2 billion by themselves. Beyond that, Northwest owns more than...
...Leningrad the top five party leaders were all wiped out. Also fallen: about a third of the 129 regional party leaders, Moscow's mayor, Lithuania's top leadership, the KGB boss in Estonia, the admiral of the Pacific fleet and the general of Soviet forces in East Germany, the party boss in Kiev, and Yevgeni Brakov, the manager of Moscow's ZIL limousine factory, who had the thankless task of taking on Yeltsin...
...decade marked by the rise of yuppies and "New Age" music, it seems many composers have fallen into the trap of producing uplifting soundtracks that are pleasant to listen to but which are endlessly repetitive in their efforts to be relaxing...