Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...society where whites insist on ruling but all parties know that cannot happen without black help. The six succeeding novels brought the relationship into the mid- 1980s and showed each man becoming gradually more sophisticated about the other's world, as in life the barriers have slowly fallen between South Africa's ruling elite and its black majority...
...Kuwaiti who serves as an executive director at the World Bank in Washington. "By taking charge of the reconstruction effort ourselves, we would have cut costs and developed an expertise we could have then marketed worldwide. But the politics was wrong. Agencies and other forms of patronage would have fallen off greatly...
Baker arrived in Israel again last week after a visit to Syria, where he picked up President Hafez Assad's formal acceptance of Washington's proposal for a conference. Jordan and Lebanon had also quickly fallen into line. Egypt was on board from the start, and Saudi Arabia and the gulf states had promised to join talks on regional problems such as water supplies and arms control...
Cresson's idea was to rally the nation behind a centralized industrial policy, marshaling economic forces in a war footing against competitors -- notably her designated No. 1 enemy, Japan. But her summons to arms has fallen flat at a time when the treasury is tight and Paris is striving to meet the conflicting imperative of a less subsidized, state-driven economy in advance of Europe's experiment with open market frontiers...
...mighty have fallen. In what used to be the German Democratic Republic, the Communist Party is an anorectic shade of its former self. With a peak membership of 2.3 million, it once embodied East Germany's political, intellectual, military and bureaucratic elite. Now reborn as the Party of Democratic Socialism, it has a scant 250,000 adherents, the majority of them former communist functionaries who, says one observer, "cannot believe they can hang up the socialist dream like a soiled coat." They remain loyal even though thousands have lost their jobs because of what Germans call Ausgrenzung, or discrimination against...