Word: fallen
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...lose them. Tragedy, when it occurs, usually boils down to collision with one of three things: bad weather, bad judgment or bad luck. In 1923 five balloonists were struck by lightning and killed in Europe. But during the 89-year history of this race, no balloon had ever fallen victim to deliberate human aggression...
...under his own name), which became a hit movie in 1971, through Jurassic Park, with a worldwide box-office take of $912 million the most popular movie of recorded history, he is a giant even among those other pop novelists--John Grisham, Stephen King, Tom Clancy--whom Hollywood has fallen in love with. Consider the string of Crichton novels that have tapped into popular obsessions and been converted into box-office gold: Rising Sun, his thriller that exploited American fears of Japan's economic threat, earned $65 million domestically for Hollywood in 1993. Disclosure, his 1994 topical twist...
What's going on in Siberia is the same thing that's occurring in the rain forests of South America and the fragile coral reefs of the Caribbean. These areas have all fallen prey to greed. If we continue exploiting the earth, we will bring about our own demise. NAGA YALLA Edgewater, New Jersey aol: NYalla...
...with fewer than 700 days before the last lowering of the Union Jack, Martin Lee continues his quixotic struggle. He finds himself with a fragile mandate and no allies. Hong Kong business won't touch him; he has fallen out with Patten after calling Patten's compromise on Hong Kong's courts "the last nail in Hong Kong's coffin." Making peace with Beijing has long ceased to be an option. Lee's best gamble may lie not in toning down, but revving up, fighting the approach of '97 in the hopes of inspiring many more to fight...
...While the absolute return of 16.8 percent is substantial, relative performance in fiscal 1995 was somewhat disappointing," President Jack R. Meyer wrote in the letter. "This is the first time in the last four years that we have fallen short of our performance benchmark...