Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...were selling for only $331 and $6.66 per oz., respectively. People who paid $61,100 for a one-karat investment diamond are finding that it is worth only about $18,000. Some forms of fine art, like Impressionist paintings and antique American furniture, have kept their value. Others have fallen in price: Old Master paintings now command 18% less than they did 20 months...
Real estate is no longer a nearly riskless investment. Instead of rising 10% to 15% a year, the median sales price of an existing home has fallen 1.3% from its high last year, to $67,200. Moreover, those statistics understate the amount of decline because they do not include attractive financing concessions that many sellers are now making. In California buyers with cash can sometimes get a 10% discount. A few New York City developers are offering special mortgages on cooperative apartments, like 12.5%, compared with a bank rate of 17% or more. For someone who borrows $100,000, that...
...from St. Petersburg, Fallen...
...Celtics have simply fallen apart. They were overconfident and they blew it. Come to think of if they didn't look that great against Washington...
Emerson should not be understood too quickly. As William James explained, "Emerson could perceive the full squalor of the individual fact, but he could also see the transfiguration." Emerson had wonderful lines about the fallen world: "It seems as if heaven had sent its insane angels into our world as to an asylum, and here they will break out in their native music and utter at intervals the words they have heard in heaven; then the mad fit returns and they mope and wallow like dogs...