Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rental shops have been pinched as well by the falling prices of prerecorded cassettes. Movie studios have drastically lowered prices < in the hope that consumers will purchase tapes rather than rent them. According to the Fairfield Group, a market-research firm, the average price of a prerecorded cassette has fallen from $51.60 in 1984 to $27 this year. Many classic movies now sell for only $19.95, and children's films often go for $14.95. This has prompted many mass merchandisers, notably Sears, to start selling cassettes in their stores. Mom-and-pop shops, which started out in rentals only, have...
...their athletic youth. They call that moment into focus at the bar, embellishing it. An argument ensues. "In your dreams," someone says. They laugh. The bar door opens. A big, shambling man with a droopy mustache enters with the tender-kneed, left-right stride of a man who's fallen off too many broncos. He is wearing a goose-down vest, a snap-button shirt, jeans and pointy-toed cowboy boots, all of which look out of place in this working man's, New England bar. One of the men at the bar glances over his shoulder. He elbows another...
...that is hardly guaranteed. When measured against a wider group of currencies, the dollar is stronger than it seems. The greenback has fallen in value by just 6.8% against the Taiwanese yuan and has risen 4.3% against the Korean...
...uses of old words are bubbling up in almost every sector of American business. Wall Streeters talk about fallen angels (out-of-favor stocks at bargain prices), shark repellants (strategies used by companies to ward off takeover attempts) and fill or kill (an order to a broker that must be canceled if it cannot be completely and immediately executed). Management experts speak of skunk costs (money that cannot be recouped when a project is aborted), tin cupping (when one corporate division begs for management support) and deadheading (bypassing a senior employee in order to promote someone more junior). Computer aficionados...
...came along, leaving one for the title promising everything to everyone. Two runs ahead with an out to victory in the tenth inning, Boston mined 68 years of unthinkable disaster in the shape of infinite singles and First Baseman Bill Buckner's all-time error. For their part, having fallen behind 2-0 and 3-2 in games, the Mets lost some of their hauteur and most of their breath. "I don't care anymore," Third Baseman Ray Knight said, "if we're compared with the 1927 New York Yankees...