Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...racing season has experienced two surges and plunges, one in the early spring, and one in the past couple of weeks. The top prospects for a really good Derby have mostly fallen by the wayside, knocked out of contention by racing injuries or plain hard luck, the curse of the thoroughbred industry...
Other early favorites have fallen victim to exhausting seasons. Star Gallant, the colt unbeaten in his career until Timely Writer nailed him in the Florida Derby, has dropped out of the picture. Hostage is being held by a fractured sesamoid bone. Distinctive Pro and Deputy Minister, two class horses from the 1980 yearling crop, have also been felled by racing injuries. Before Dawn, this year's top filly, said goodnight a long time ago, leaving the Genuine Risk school of fans without a favorite...
Congress has fallen into other bad habits. Knowing how hazardous and time consuming it is to push a controversial bill through the multilayered committee system, legislators increasingly tack their pet proposals onto major bills as riders. Right-wing advocates of so-called social issues have placed anti-school busing and pro-prayer riders onto a number of Justice Department funding bills. There is even an antiabortion rider attached to this year's appropriations bill for the Postal Service. These irrelevant amendments rarely survive both houses, but legislators waste valuable time in the process of shedding them...
...famous Milwaukee brewers have fallen on hard times. Schlitz no longer makes beer there. Takeover battles simmer among the suds, and mutinous stockholders threaten to dislodge entire boards of directors in nasty brawls not far above the barroom level. The brewers are in a battle for third place in the U.S. beer business, behind leader Anheuser-Busch and second-place Miller. Analysts believe that third largest is big enough to compete with the industry's leaders, but anything much smaller than that level cannot muster the advertising megabucks to fight off relative obscurity and low sales...
...They were from the American-as-polyester National Association of Realtors, and their convention had given Ronald Reagan a standing ovation just a day earlier. But with interest rates stuck well above 16 percent, realtors just can't sell any homes, even at prices that in some places have fallen 25 percent from last year. So the realtors had come to town to demand that Congress balance the budget, or make the Federal Reserve ease credit, or something to bring down interest rates...