Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...board's measured optimism reflects its expectation that the Federal Reserve Board will continue to keep interest rates low, thus encouraging corporate investment and consumer spending. The prime rate has fallen from 11% to 9 1/2% during the past twelve months. Said Charles Schultze, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution: "One essentially bullish aspect to the outlook is the expectation that the Federal Reserve will work actively to avoid a recession. It will intervene and push down rates if it judges that necessary to keep the economy from stagnating...
...week to be attended by President Reagan. Later, two-man military teams began carrying out a duty as difficult as any combat the legendary division has experienced. At houses and apartments across the U.S., the grim messengers knocked on doors to deliver the feared official notification: the Eagles had fallen...
Lown and Chazov tore off their suit jackets, sprang from the podium and, along with other IPPNW physicians in the room, gave the fallen man cardiopulmonary resuscitation. The victim, Lev Novikov, 60, was put on a stretcher and taken to an Oslo hospital, where officials reported that he had suffered a heart attack. Novikov was later described as out of danger. Skeptics said that his collapse may have been staged, an allegation that Lown called "perverse." Concluded Chazov: "To win over death--you have now witnessed that it goes well for Soviets and Americans to cooperate in this task...
...department also decided to return to an individualized junior tutorial program, which has fallen by the wayside in recent years, Levine said. Instead of meeting in larger groups, junior concentrators will, for one semester, have one-on-one or two-on-one tutorials with a professor...
...economic signs these days are mixed. Interest rates on five-year Treasury bonds have fallen from 9.62% to 9.13% since August, and unemployment in November was 7%, its lowest level since President Reagan took office. But growth is not strong, and there are few signs of a coming pickup. The gross national product in the third quarter grew at an annual rate of 4.3%, but fourth-quarter expansion is expected to be slower. Some Wall Street sages, though, do not worry about trying to figure it out. Says Barton Biggs, managing director at Morgan Stanley: "The best kind of market...