Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...conspiracies and denunciations. In Pintilie's free but faithful adaptation of The Wild Duck, the playgoer finds himself immersed in a world of coarse, rapacious robber barons who believe the disgrace in any swindle lies in getting caught. The most pitiable figure imaginable to them is someone who has fallen from luxury. Thus the privation of the ruined Ekdal family and the shame they feel at taking handouts from their former business partners, the Werles, permeate every emotional connection in the play. The Werles' first-act party takes place in shadow behind a mirrored wall, which later turns out also...
...invested in stocks typically earned a 26% return last year. "We're clobbering the banks. It looks like the tables have turned," boasts Gary Strum, first vice president in charge of pension services for E.F. Hutton. Thrift institutions in particular have suffered a drain. Their share of IRAs has fallen from 54% in 1982 to 28% today...
...University activists envision constructing "a model type of community" in which homeless and low-income families would live and interact with moderate-income Cambridge families and Harvard affiliates. But the plan for an experiment in "totally income-integrated" living has run up against a familiar stumbling block that has fallen in the path of many similar idealistic projects before it: money, or the lack thereof...
...Group of Five plan was a success: the dollar has fallen against all major currencies since the September meeting. Most important, it has declined by 27% against the yen, and the protectionist pressures in Congress have declined. But the Group of Five now seems to be in no hurry to stop what it started. The central banks, with the exception of the Bank of Japan, are making no attempt to discourage private foreign-exchange traders from continuing to push the dollar down...
...CRIMSON article revealed something even more insidious at work: Third World-minority students have themselves fallen into the trap of thinking they have to agree. Maybe it shouldn't startle me; our views about race are also shaped by the society in which we have grown up and the Harvard environment...