Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...moneymen seemed to disagree last week about the best course for the dollar. Treasury Secretary James Baker told Congress that the Reagan Administration "would not be displeased" with further declines, provided that they were "orderly." But Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker testified that the currency has already "fallen enough." Added Volcker: "I don't want to see a loss of confidence in the dollar...
...Israel as the week passed, Anatoli Shcharansky tried as best he could to spend some private time with the wife from whom he had been separated for so many years. As for the future, it was too early to make plans, he said. Because he has fallen far behind in his chosen field, mathematics and computer technology, he acknowledged that it would be "something of a problem" to return to his old line of work. But nobody who knew the brave, resourceful and clever young man of conscience in Moscow in former times doubted that he would find ways...
...Louis the next day, Reagan's motorcade pulled up to a side door of his hotel to bypass 150 angry farmers who oppose his budget priorities. Adding to their pain: some 75,000 letters from the Farmers Home Administration began going out last week to borrowers who have fallen behind on loan repayments, warning them to start catching up within 30 days if they hope to avoid eventual foreclosure...
...concerns some rather well-paid if shady messengering for a sleazy drug dealer named Gypsy (Rudy Ramos). Too cowardly or wise to deliver his product himself, he recruits money-hungry young innocents from Quicksilver to do his dirty work for him. One delivery boy, Apache (David Harris), has already fallen prey to Gypsy's ugly side: having dared to take a cut of his action, Gypsy strikes back, hunting Apache down in his car in an inferior version of the chase scene from The French Connection...
...Bulldogs are now 25-10-1 after being swept by Minnesota last weekend and have fallen to seventh and eighth in the latest national polls...