Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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ECAC Woes: The ECAC has fallen upon hard times this season. An 11-0 record is nice, but because of the weakness of Harvard's conference opponents, some still don't take the Crimson seriously...
...plot is a fast-paced blend of theatrical parody, stock farce, and typical British silliness. Frederick (Lee Eichen), ex-apprentice to a gang of nice-guy pirates, is torn between loyalty to his former masters and his moral duty to turn them in. To complicate matters, he has fallen in love with the daughter (Lisa Zeidenberg) of the local Major General (Andrew Gardner) who is bent on the pirates' destruction. How does Frederick escape from this frightfully sticky wicket? Suffice to say that the resolution is as silly as it is stirring...
...flaws, the regime can rightly claim to have given its citizens, who pay no taxes, a higher standard of living than ever before. Most prices have not risen since the '50s, and some have actually fallen. Extreme poverty has been obliterated. Some foodstuffs, such as meat and meat products, are rationed, but supplies of most staples are adequate...
...performance and military buildup could have led to an internal political rift. In the past decade Kim has more than doubled the size of the North Korean army, from 409,000 to 885,000 men, turning it into the world's sixth largest fighting force. Meanwhile, North Korea has fallen into arrears on its foreign debt of some $2 billion. The country achieved only about half of the growth called for in its last long-term economic plan (1978-84), and has yet to produce a new one. Both of the last two grain harvests have been substandard...
...State, George Shultz, apparently unwilling to settle anything face to face, took to exchanging messages by way of television. And by the end of the week an ABC News poll showed not only that 59% of the public disbelieved Reagan's answers but that his overall approval rating had fallen 10 points in the past two months, to 57%, the lowest since May 1985 in the wake of his visit to West Germany's Bitburg Cemetery...