Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...terrifying. In crib after crib lie babies and toddlers who look like old people, their skin shriveled, their skeletal faces bearing the unmistakable mark of approaching death. These pitiful children at a clinic in Bucharest are AIDS patients, the tiniest victims of the brutal, backward regime of Rumania's fallen dictator, Nicolae Ceausescu...
...almost every measure, George Bush has fallen short of his campaign pledge to be the "education President." He continues to back the ineffectual Lauro Cavazos as Education Secretary, while promoting "choice" and other cost-free nostrums as remedies for ailing schools. True, his proposed 1991 budget, unveiled last week, calls for an additional $500 million for Project Head Start. But student aid comes in for cuts, and the Education Department's paltry $500 million increase does not even keep pace with inflation. Little wonder that in a recent New York Times/CBS News poll 68% of those surveyed felt Bush...
Wall Street's pessimism has helped push down London's stock market, where average share prices have fallen 8.5% in the past three weeks. London's market has been buffeted by high domestic interest costs as well, with short-term rates hitting 15%. The Bank of England has been boosting rates to combat an 8% inflation spiral, which has been aggravated by double-digit increases in recent labor contracts. Case in point: last week Ford's British subsidiary agreed to a 10% wage increase for its unionized workers...
...executive has ever underestimated the power of sex to sell a show. But NBC's new sitcom Grand is a clanging symphony of suggestiveness. Set in the fictional town of Grand, Pa. -- whose chief industry, a piano factory, has fallen on hard times -- the series introduces a clutch of socially diverse - characters and stirs vigorously. Atop the class structure in this small-town version of Upstairs, Downstairs is the piano magnate Harris Weldon (John Randolph), attended by a faithful but acerbic manservant (John Neville). At the bottom is the chain-smoking Janice Pasetti (Pamela Reed), who lives in a trailer...
...cigarette consumption has fallen in the U.S., tobacco companies have increasingly directed their marketing to specific groups, such as women, Hispanics and blacks. While 30.5% of white males smoke, 39% of blacks do. Uptown was carefully researched and designed: everything from its name to its packaging was tailored to the tastes of the black consumer. "If we were Sears developing a line of clothing for blacks," says a Reynolds spokeswoman, "this would pass without any notice...