Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...these standards, Harvard's men's swimming team has been a freak now for a couple of years. While most Crimson athletic teams have fallen from national prominence or have set their sights on local or regional competition, the Crimson has steadfastly striven to enlarge its scope, to burst from the provincial realms of ECAC action and embrace the national scene...
...most burning crisis in Europe." Why did Yeltsin -- who till now stayed his hand despite repeated condemnation of his Serbian allies by the West -- take this stance? TIME State Department correspondent Ann Simmons says Yeltsin "may be playing to domestic pressures to show that Russia hasn't fallen from superpowership, that it can still tackle the U.S. and disagree with...
...schools have fallen into line with the capital campaign, or with Rudenstine's larger goal of a more coherent institution...
...pressure of both mystery and reality that makes Poussin so unacademic. He was an idealist. The world he painted, in all its mythographic richness, was not fallen. Neither sin nor decay was part of it. The young man in The Inspiration of the Poet, circa 1631, glancing upward while the imperious hand of Apollo redirects his attention to the text in his hand and the muse Calliope gives him a level look of benign assessment, might as well be Poussin himself. The allegory unfolds in a luminous calm but is grounded by discreet observation: the relaxed pose of Apollo...
...spirited offensive served to deflect parliament's fire away from Grachev himself, and no vote was taken to call for his dismissal. But when he dropped out of a government visit to the Gulf region last week, the presumption was that he had finally fallen from official favor. In fact, Grachev had become ill after speaking to the parliament and checked into a hospital for medical tests...