Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Were it not for the efforts of St.Anselm's starters Stephanie Rious and Sharon Dawley, Kleinfelder's charges might have fallen asleep by halftime. But Rioux and Dawley, who combined for a total of 25 points, refused to roll over and play dead, and the Crimson took a mere 11-point lead into the locker room...
...loss. Above her loom massive gray factory walls with their vast mosaic of windows, painted-over green, cracked and dirty. Only one of the four black smokestacks exhales into the sky. The railroad tunnels that run beneath the building are empty, and the moaning central paint ovens have fallen silent...
...Nobel Peace Prizewinner Andrei Sakharov, the Literary Gazette responded by blaming the famed dissident's downfall on the West. Addressing Sakharov's supporters, the paper said: "By gratifying his inordinate vanity, you yourselves pushed him into the abyss of lies and slander into which he has fallen...
...dramatic measure was yet another devaluation of the lira, this time by nearly 50%; since last January, the value of Turkey's basic currency unit has fallen from 25 to the dollar to 70. Demirel also served notice on Turkey's sluggish, over-manned state enterprises, which account for more than half of the country's industrial production, that they would have to operate under market conditions. Last year government payments for public sector deficits accounted for one-third of the national budget and were a major factor in the soaring inflation rate. To raise foreign exchange...
...been stung. The replacement cost of their inventories has risen dramatically, but not many shoppers have been willing to buy at the new prices. Because carriage trade customers continue to splurge, Cartier, Tiffany and other top-line stores are not suffering, but the rest of the retail business has fallen off badly. Laments Terry Weinshank, vice president of Delage Jewelers, a supplier to 500 stores throughout the Midwest: "The retail jewelry business is dying right before our eyes. In the last couple of weeks we have seen six of our customers close up, and more will follow...