Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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From as early as the second day of the fires that have blackened 200,000 acres of Southern California and rendered thousands homeless, it was obvious that some were not accidental. Aside from one blaze caused by a vagrant's campfire and a few others sparked by fallen power lines or kids playing with matches, everything else was labeled suspicious. But it was not until the smoke, literally, cleared over last week's ruins that police released a shocking estimate. Of the fortnight's 26 major blazes, 20 are regarded as set by arsonists...
...audience seems to agree. Randall is the selling point to ticket buyers and potential sponsors. Executive producer Manny Kladitis concedes, "I don't know how long we could survive without him," in tones that suggest the likely duration would be a day and a half. While season subscribers have fallen from 27,000 the opening year to about 18,000 today, that is competitive with the 23,000 for the much older Roundabout, a nonprofit Broadway company that favors more contemporary, commercial work...
...failed in his entrance examination, the boy who lacks one or two credits for college entrance, the boy who has fallen behind through slipshod methods of instruction, who needs better 'foundationing,' finds able tutors here, ready to give him special attention," reads a brochure 30 years later...
...spent my first fall here in utter amazement at the colors of the trees. In the Evergreen State, trees change color only in picture books. Last weekend I walked around the Fens with a friend from Seattle, watching the ducks swim through the leaves that had fallen on the water and marvelling at the clear skies and unseasonably warm November weather...
...addition to general financial incompetence and mismanagement, the Council has generated a plethora of scandals. Remember Maya Prabhu who rigged an election last year? And already this year the Council has experienced a scandal of sorts as the election for the Vice-Presidency has fallen into dispute. After expressly voting to suspend the by-laws in order to include absentee ballots in the election, these ballots were arbitrarily nullified in the run-off election. And these ballots made the difference in the final tally. Weeks after the issue was raised by a vote teller, the Council finally voted--they voted...