Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Government's role in aiding declining sectors of the economy. Says Murray Weidenbaum of Washington University: "None of this deals with the underlying problems that have created the steel industry's competitive problems. It's like handing a faulty parachute to a man who has fallen out of an airplane." Big Steel will now have to prove that a little bit of Government will help it land safely...
...Somebody's gotta learn how to play in the first ten minutes against you guys," a Boston College assistant coach screamed at Harvard women's soccer coach Bob Scalise, after the Eagles had fallen behind, 2-0, in the first nine minutes of yesterday's game, but had evened up the play by about the 25th minute...
Because U.S. narcotics officials can do nothing to eradicate the poppy fields of the Golden Crescent, they have fallen back on what Bensinger calls the "second line of defense"-the refineries. Bensinger and his colleages have found European law-enforcement authorities eager to cooperate, for heroin is no longer the "American disease"; both Italy and West Germany have particularly serious problems. West Germany, which has about a fourth of the population of the U.S., had more than 600 heroin-related deaths last year, while the U.S. had 594. In the past eleven months, international law enforcement authorities have seized...
...comes not a moment too soon. The company's macho-looking line of four-wheel-drive Jeeps, which convey a sort of L.L. Bean sexiness to suburbanites, helped lift AMC's profits to a record $84 million last year. But sales of the fuel-thirsty vehicles have fallen 41% this year. During the first nine months of the current fiscal year, AMC lost $74.4 million...
...then former mayor, Charles Saunders, rounded out the ceremonies with this hope, addressed to those who would celebrate future anniversaries of this city. "May they be able to rieterate this sentiment which I am sure we fell today," Saunders said--"The line have fallen unto us in pleasant places; yea, we have a goodly heritage...