Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...months to two years for results to show, but that timetable is nearly up and the turnaround is nowhere in sight. Inflation, 10% when the conservatives came in, is now 15%, though that is a considerable improvement from a high of 22% last summer. The gross national product has fallen from 1.5% growth in 1978-79 to a negative 3% for 1979-80. Some 10,000 businesses went bankrupt, a record. Unemployment climbed by a phenomenal 66% in 1980 ?and 86% since Thatcher took office. In the manufacturing regions of the north, 14.8% of the male work force...
...black presidential limousine, reached him again at a phone in the Capitol Rotunda. During Reagan's Inaugural speech, Carter briefly closed his red-rimmed eyes, a moment caught by television cameras. He had been praying for the hostages, he later told aides, who had wondered if he had fallen asleep...
...Wood spent five years in the British army and worked on several films (including The Charge of the Light Brigade), I'll take his word for it. Thus the best moment in Act Two is a poignant intermezzo where on a darkened stage, the makeup girl swabs blood off fallen extras to the strains of a soldier's ballad. If there's anything funny about this, it is the cynical vision of a survivor who sees it all as a black farce. As Wood writes in the program notes, "there is something that is proof against courage, against planning, against...
Many Midwestern farmers, still suffering from the crop losses caused by the summer drought, now gaze forlornly over their bare, frozen land. In Minnesota, where about 5 in. of snow should have fallen by now, only a light powder covers the earth. Says Ed Grady of the state's farm bureau: "Our concern is that the frost may penetrate the ground more deeply than it would with a snow cover," thus damaging crops planted this winter. "This is about as dry as I can remember," observes Eldon Merklin, an Oklahoma farmer who planted 1,200 acres of wheat last...
Frenzy set in as soon as the opening bell rang last Wednesday morning at the New York Stock Exchange. Prices plunged as brokers carried out orders from their clients to sell out their accounts. By midday the Dow Jones industrial average had fallen 31 points, although it recovered slightly in the afternoon to close down 23.80 points on a volume of 92.9 million shares. It was the busiest session in the 188-year history of the exchange. The following day, the Dow Jones index sank another 15.19 points...