Word: fallen
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Still, admissions and financial aid policies have fallen victim to what Harvard Financial Aid Director James S. Miller calls a "chilling effect," adding that the policies of each school have developed "in isolation like the platypus in Australia," without the benefit of communication and collaboration...
...common misconception is that taxes are going down. Sorry, it just isn't so. True, some tax rates have fallen. And tax reform last year gave us tax credits for education and tax deductions for long-term savings. But new targeted breaks total maybe $20 billion, which pales next to Americans' annual tax burden of nearly $3 trillion. In 1998 it took the combined incomes of everybody in the U.S. through May 10 to pay all taxes owed for the year--the latest "tax freedom" day ever, says the Tax Foundation, which figures the date will be even later this...
...Europeans, the events of Monicagate not only unraveled a loosely-knit presidency but also tarnished a dream that has inspired the continent since the First World War. The United States, under the dubious leadership of President Clinton, has fallen from the high ground that earned it the respect and sometimes the envy of much of the world. The nation no longer stands alone as the stronghold of democracy and ideals that Europeans could rely on as unwavering in the pursuit of the good and the just. America, it seems, doesn't know what is good or just anymore...
...friends and political allies to lie for him. Instead he appeared red-eyed to tell the nation he had worked for years "to demonstrate that the standards of government and behavior in public life were going to be restored permanently." He admitted he had "fallen below those high standards" and had "to do something radical to restore people's faith in this Government...
...reason was the leadership vacuum in the House G.O.P. Newt Gingrich was out of the picture, and Speaker-elect Livingston was loath to guide impeachment proceedings, perhaps because he feared that his own extramarital affairs would be exposed. Control of the process had fallen to House whip Tom DeLay, the hardest of anti-Clinton hard-liners, who had ensured that moderates favoring censure had no place...