Word: fallen
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State flagship schools have been hit especially hard, but the trend has also affected Ivy League institutions like the University of Pennsylvania, where African American enrollment has fallen to 7 percent of their freshman class. Harvard, however, has avoided any dropoff this year...
...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...
...With the full unveiling, any concern that the renovation might be blandly understated has fallen away. Nicolai Ouroussoff of the New York Times declared the redesign "one of the most exquisite works of architecture to rise in this city in at least a generation." Robert Ivy, editor in chief of Architectural Record and an ardent fan of Taniguchi's work in Japan, says the redesign proves "there's very much a place for buildings that are refined, that fit within their place, that offer quietness and repose, finesse and delight. This building will engage another generation of museumgoers...
...responsibility of supporting HoCos has fallen traditionally on the Committee Fund, but this year the Grants Fund also shares that burden...
...Ohioans of Winesburg, of Clyde? What had happened to the small town as microcosm of all the frustrated hopes and inchoate ambitions that are so purely American? Carelessness alone does not justify dropping the ball so spectacularly in an election that had so much riding on it. Something had fallen apart...