Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...case with the loss to the Cadets, Harvard has repeatedly come out strong in the early going and has fallen apart in crunch time...
...then there was Professor Anita Hill, the poised daughter of so many generations of black women who have been burned carrying torches into the battle for principle. The cause of civil rights and social justice has so often fallen to them to defend. Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth were slaves by birth, freedom fighters by temperament. Rosa Parks was a tired seamstress who shoved history forward by refusing to give up her seat on the bus. Mechelle Vinson was a bank teller who, having grown weary of a boss who she said forced her to trade sex for professional survival...
Cheri Register, the mother of two adopted Korean daughters, shares some of these qualms. "Wealth does not entitle us to the children of the poor," she writes in her book Are Those Kids Yours? "International adoption is an undeserved benefit that has fallen to North Americans, West Europeans and Australians, largely because of the inequitable socioeconomic circumstances in which we live. In the long run, we ought to be changing those circumstances...
...European immigrants, whose numbers have fallen off sharply in recent years, the law represents a long-awaited shot at a visa. From 1955 to 1964, 50% of all new Americans came from Europe. By 1989, that figure was down to 8%, while 29% arrived from Asia and 56% from Canada, Mexico, Central America | and the Caribbean. To avoid charges that whites are again being favored over Hispanics, blacks and Asians, the new law increases the number of slots for family members of aliens, which will largely benefit non-Europeans (from 446,000 to 520,000), while providing 40,000 visas...
With each month the recovery fails to ignite, Bush becomes less untouchable as a candidate. While he still scores high marks for his handling of foreign policy, his approval rating has fallen from 86% right after the gulf war to 65% in mid-September, according to a TIME/CNN poll. Bush's rating on his handling of the economy has declined from 56% in October 1989 to 36% in late summer. And a swelling field of Democratic presidential candidates, aware that nitpicking Bush on foreign policy could be futile, are aiming straight at the economy in the hope that it will...