Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Besides real estate tax the city will collect,the Pudding also owes money to the University forsteam heat and to a bank for mortgage payments onwhich it has fallen behind...
Perhaps the biggest worry in the U.S. economic picture, TIME's board members agreed, is the virtual standstill of domestic capital investment. Even though the prime rate that U.S. banks charge their best corporate customers has fallen from 10.5% to 8.5% in the past 18 months, business executives now seem reluctant to borrow money to expand. Spending on plant and equipment actually declined 5.4% in the first quarter of 1986, an event that was almost without modern precedent for a U.S. economy that was not wallowing in recession...
...city's past in order to define its future. A step toward protecting those confectionary creations was taken on July 9, when the city commission created two historic districts encompassing the greatest concentration of art deco buildings along the south beach section, a once glitzy tourist mecca that has fallen on hard times. The ordinance requires a six-month waiting period for a permit to raze any building within the area, thereby giving preservationists time to find a way to save them...
...premise is a straightforward one. As Ripley was drifting through space after her previous close encounter of the unspeakable kind -- a flight that used up the equivalent of 57 earth years -- the alien planet was colonized. But now, suddenly, it has fallen silent. Is it possible that this wild tale of rampaging monsters she keeps telling is true? A party of Marines is sent out to investigate, and Ripley reluctantly accompanies them as a sort of Cassandra-cum-consultant...
...entitled to special consideration from the U.S., even to the extent of benignly overlooking borderline Israeli activities in America." For years that appears to have been the view of the U.S. Government as well. But among at least some officials of the Administration, that policy may now have fallen out of favor...