Word: fallen
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...shots have fallen off slightly in the second and third frames—39 and 36, respectively—as the Crimson’s opponents have made late-game pushes and, at times, caught Harvard on its heels...
...Rowan, whose career at TIME and its sister publications LIFE and FORTUNE spanned more than five decades, recalls the events that gave fitful birth to the People's Republic of China with a swashbuckling ebullience that has long fallen out of fashion in journalism. He recounts his adventures dodging bullets and chasing down major historical figures with an immediacy that belies the years that have since passed. But his expertise as a longtime observer of China also lends authoritative weight to the yarn of a boyishly enthusiastic and seemingly new reporter...
...percent bump for fiscal year 2006 will mark the fourth straight year of slim payout increases that have generally fallen short of the higher-education inflation rate. Payout increases at the beginning of the decade were far higher, topping out at a 37-percent hike...
...uncharted territory. Now, with the military component reduced to a mere 78 personnel, and a reborn police force under the close watch of foreign advisers, the mission's youthful bureaucrats are taking charge of battered economic and development institutions. The economy has gone steadily backward: per-capita income has fallen 50% since independence in 1978. The ethnic tensions and brutality of 1998-2003 masked a chronic illness in Solomon Islands, for which there is no off-the-shelf cure. "Our leaders have not lived up to the expectations of the people that have put them into power," says Central Bank...
...look at the size of your tallest building, a contest in which Taiwan has just nosed ahead of Malaysia. Or you can dwell on the relative strength of your currency. Which is why you might expect American self-esteem to be in decline, for the dollar has fallen 24% against the euro since the beginning of 2003, touching a record low last week, and 15% against the Japanese yen. But the U.S. economy being a strange beast, few Americans have felt any impact from the dollar's fall...