Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Bennett's hopeful forecast was shared by the President, who declared earlier this month, "We're on the road to victory." Federal surveys found that "casual" consumption of cocaine and marijuana had fallen, as had emergency-room admissions and deaths from drug overdoses. Federal agents believe cocaine prices have risen because of the pressure international police operations are putting on suppliers...
Many of those arrested were militants from western Germany, France, Italy and the Netherlands who have flooded across the fallen Wall to pursue a radical political agenda in united Germany. The Berlin fighting was also part of a wider pattern of recent violence in eastern Germany, including football riots and beatings of foreigners by gangs of proto-Nazi skinheads. Many officials attribute the troubles to rising unemployment and a collapse of local authority -- dangerous new problems that are the dark side of East Germany's liberation from communism...
President Derek C. Bok said several weeks ago that in the period following the issuing of the report, the value of Harvard's South African holdings have recently fallen back to just over $150 million...
Among the hardest hit are American rice growers. Iraq bought about $143 million worth of the staple from the U.S. in fiscal 1989 -- or 25% of the U.S. export total. The embargo came as painful news for producers, since world prices for rice had fallen 28% during the previous year. Nor are rice growers the only farmers feeling the pinch. Before the invasion, Baghdad was buying $350 million worth of other U.S. grains annually, including wheat, corn, barley and soybeans...
...western-movie tradition. The good guys and the bad guys have exchanged their traditional roles in his film, but their contentions are staged with style and energy. In this reversal there is, just possibly, redemption, not only of historical crimes but also of a movie genre lately fallen into decrepitude. It is possible, surprisingly, to imagine John Ford happy in the great multiplex...