Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...little more than a minute later, Carter doubled the lead coming out from the right corner after Quebec defenseman Curtis Leschyshyn had fallen. Carter skated out and beat Gosselin with a shot through traffic...
Granted, the United States's share of the world manufacturing output has fallen from over 40 percent after World War II to around 16 percent today. But the reduction of America's overwhelming predominance in the world economy was a result that America deliberately sought, on the grounds that an economically secure Western Europe and Japan were crucial to containing communism and providing for a stable post-war world, thereby enhancing America's international position in the long run. To cite the economic rehabilitation of Western Europe and Japan through the Marshall Plan and demilitarization as causes of the United...
CLEARLY America's industrial base has eroded in recent years as the record Reagan budget deficits have drained private savings from badly-needed investment. Federal investment in civilian research and development has fallen 27 percent in real terms since 1981; America's failure to adapt and develop new technology has led to rapid declines in productivity. The United States has been borrowing abroad in record levels for the purpose of consumption, rather than investment...
...satellite had been powered by a nuclear reactor with more than 100 pounds of enriched uranium in its core. Emergency response crews searching the area found 3000 bits of enriched uranium and a few pounds of radioactive metal. If the satellite had fallen near any populated area, people could have died...
...Mexico was bracing itself for a painful reality. Jan. 1 marked the start of the Pact for Economic Stabilization and Growth, the latest package of wage and price controls intended to help keep Mexico's inflation rate below 20%. But it will probably pinch workers, whose real earnings have fallen steadily since 1982, and add further stress to an economy already staggering under more than $100 billion in foreign debt...