Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...period, making the recent action striking by contrast. Daily Dow moves of 1% or 2%, such as we've seen lately, had been sparse since 1991. But before that they were routine. The Chicago-based research firm Logical Information Machines calculates that since 1945 the Dow has risen or fallen at least 1% in a day 2,268 times, or an average of 44 times a year. It's happened 50 times this year. The news is that this is the way the stock market really behaves, which is a reason many people stayed out of stocks...
Yale has changed, and the world has changed. Consequently, and unfortunately for some, the onus of preserving religion has fallen heavily on the believers. Yale has decided that living in a dormitory is fundamental to the Yale education, because of the debate cohabitation sparks and even the difficulties such as these that accompany accepting the lifestyles of those around you. If the Yale Five must live in the comfort of their own homes, then, for better or for worse, they aren't (at least currently) Yale material...
...equally disastrous relationship with James Gilbey, which ended in scandal when a tabloid publication printed a tape of a private phone call between them. Then came a rugby captain, Will Carling, and then a prominent businessman, Christopher Whalley. Next, Diana was said by the tabloids to have fallen in love with a Pakistani-born heart surgeon, Hasnat Khan, whom she reportedly hoped to marry; except the intensity of public scrutiny may have been too much for Dr. Khan...
...life still appeared sunny when TIME chronicled her whirlwind tour of America with Charles in 1985. But shadows had fallen by 1992, when we reported on troubles in the royal family and the royal marriage. Four years later we wrote about her final rupture with Charles and her emergence as a very modern mother and an international figure of mercy...
...ability to reach that capability has been in question in recent years, particularly last season when the Crimson failed to make the Eastern Tournament for the second straight year. Thus the Harvard program has fallen under the rebuilding stigma...