Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...there is little joy in Germany today. The mood is subdued, as if, at a time that should be reserved for quiet satisfaction, a shadow has fallen on the land. A few years down the road it will all work out, Germans assure one another, but most are aware that unification has proved -- and will continue to be -- a more difficult task than anyone expected amid last year's euphoria. There are times when it seems that Ossis and Wessis, as they sometimes contemptuously call each other, are growing further apart, not closer together...
...problems -- the desertion of its names -- will undoubtedly grow. Lloyd's could then face a capital crunch that would diminish its capacity to take on new business. The number of names providing capital to the syndicates jumped from 7,000 in 1973 to 32,500 in 1988, but has fallen to 26,500 since then, largely because Lloyd's suddenly looks like a risky proposition...
...Pagnol's memoirs is to create a universal family out of what may have been his private fantasy. They capture the anecdotes of a Provence youth in a scrapbook that all can take delight in. This brace of films is a gift to moviegoers too. It might have fallen into their arms out of an impossibly sunny...
...first great catchphrase of the '90s: "I've fallen and I can't get up!" The poorly acted but plaintive cry can be heard in ads for Lifecall, one of many personal emergency-response systems that summon medical help at the press of a button. Now that as many as 350,000 of the systems have been sold, they are beginning to draw fire from consumer-advocacy groups that question the marketing of the high-tech hailers and sometimes even the need for them...
More worrisome for Nintendo are signs that the video-game frenzy the Japanese-owned company stirred up over the past five years may be starting to fizzle. Sales of the old Nintendo system have fallen off sharply (down 46% in the first half of 1991), and discount tags have replaced SOLD OUT signs in toy stores across the U.S. "I played all the games so much, I just got bored with them," says Tomas Romano, 9, of Brooklyn, N.Y. He and his friends now prefer Little League baseball...