Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Caesar is fallen, proclaimed Cassius...
...only have economic condition deteriorated under the PRI's current head, President Miguel de la Madrid, with real wages having fallen to levels not seen since the early 1970s and the foreign debt having climbed to an astronomical $108 billion, but the party has lost credibility as a result of the recent election confusion as well...
Granted, the pitching staff has fallen on tough times with the injuries to Bruce Hurst and Jeff Sellars. Nevertheless, Roger Clemens remains the best pitcher in the game, period. Lee Smith and Wes Gardner have provided some order to the chaos that last year reigned in the Red Sox bullpen. Hurst was off to a great start until lately, when he's been affected by some sort of viral infection. Dennis "Oil Can" Boyd and Sellars don't have the records that Clemens and Hurst do, but they have been victimized several times this year by a lackluster offense...
...costly venture in commercial-jet building. The A320 is a daring new breed of plane, the world's first commercial airliner in which the pilots "fly by wire" -- controlling the engines and wing surfaces (rudder, flaps, ailerons) via computers and electronic commands rather than hydraulic or cable linkages. The fallen jet was only the sixth A320 to come off the assembly line at the Airbus Industrie consortium's plant in Toulouse. But the questions arising from the accident apply to the entire aircraft industry, for the planes of the future will be increasingly controlled by computer software instead of human...
Even though the two neighbors had long been enemies, the invading Vietnamese were initially welcomed as liberators. In the early years of the occupation as many as 200,000 Vietnamese troops were in Kampuchea, but the number had fallen to 120,000 by the beginning of this year. This past spring Hanoi announced that it would withdraw its troops completely by 1990, and last week's ceremony marked the departure of the top commanders. In a striking statistical footnote, Vietnamese officials admitted last week that they had lost 50,000 soldiers in Kampuchea since the 1978 invasion -- roughly the same...