Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unexpected death toll has heightened the anxiety in the business community and given the Japanese press a cause celebre. Story after story has likened the fallen business leaders to martyred warriors. Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan's largest daily newspaper, ran a feature under these scary headlines: SUDDEN DEATHS OF CORPORATE HEADS; DISEASE-FREE SOLDIERS UNDER HEAVY STRESS FROM RECESSION AND THE STRONG YEN. The Sunday Mainichi referred to the trend as "death in combat...
...Republican National Committee, which has been dizzyingly prosperous in the Reagan era, has suddenly fallen on leaner times. Faced with a $3 million shortfall in its $38 million annual budget, the committee last week laid off 40 of its 275 employees. Donations are down, say G.O.P. fund raisers, as a result of the Iran-contra scandal, disappointment with the Republican loss of the Senate last fall, and too many aspiring presidential candidates trolling for money from the same supporters...
...National Security Council or the congressional investigation but celebrityhood. Ollie North was made, as Gary Hart was unmade, in less than a week. Only in America can a man be created between two Sabbaths. And not just the man but the cult. The gavel has barely fallen on the last senatorial reproach to North and we already have Ollie dolls, an Ollie video, the "Ollie cut" and Ollie songs (Hooray for Olliewood, Ollie B. Good...
...week's end it was clear that the star had fallen. The surprise was particularly rude in Los Angeles, where Minkow had won some influential admirers -- including Mayor Tom Bradley -- for his community involvement. The entrepreneur coached a local softball team, campaigned against alcohol abuse and spoke out against the use of drugs. Indeed, the charge of drug-money laundering was especially strange, since he had asked his employees to take drug tests and adopted the motto "My act is clean, how's yours...
High winds and torrential rains triggered earth slides that sent tons of mud and rock cascading onto villages. Government weather officials said 9.2 inches of rain had fallen during the night...