Word: fallen
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Suppose the monthly inflation rate in the U.S. was 20%, the output of the nation's industries had fallen 15% in a year, unemployment was rising across the country and the government was visibly inept. Suppose California and Texas had seceded, foreign communists were advising how to reconstruct the U.S. government, NATO had been disbanded, all U.S. military bases abroad had been closed and batches of the armed forces' most sophisticated weapons were being sold at bargain rates to former enemies...
Buchwald tells the story in the short, strong declarative sentences that are his style -- an artful, solid kind of brick masonry. Twice in his adult years, he has fallen into serious psychological depressions. "For a humorist," Buchwald admits, "I think a lot about death. During both my depressions, I contemplated suicide. My main concern was that I would not make the New York Times obituary page." He consulted a Dr. Morse in 1962: "What made him unique among psychiatrists I have known is that he stretched out on his couch and the patient sat in the chair. Morse would stare...
...over computer chips erupted between the U.S. and Japan as Washington called for "emergency consultations" with Tokyo following the release of figures showing yet another drop in the share of Japan's semiconductor market held by foreign companies. For the first three quarters of 1993, the foreigners' share has fallen and has been stuck below a benchmark 20% share negotiated by the two governments. The Administration wants to fight for the U.S. computer-chip industry, but it does not want trade friction to topple Japan's fragile reform coalition government...
...part newsman, part technical specialist and part space-age jurist who presides over sometimes substantive disputes online. "As soon as we opened for business, gun enthusiasts jumped on us for what they saw as TIME's antigun bias," says technology editor Philip Elmer-DeWitt. "It has fallen largely to Tom to figure out how to give them the space to speak their mind without letting the debate break out into a shooting...
Marinilli and Li are both from the Boston area and did not have to fly in. But they have not heard from their roommates and fear they have fallen victim to the delays...