Word: fallen
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...Crimson was lucky not to have fallen behind much earlier. The team came out sluggish in the first half, generating little pressure and letting the Tigers dictate the tempo of the game. The Crimson managed just one shot on goal before intermission...
...Senators on both sides of the aisle broke down on Friday as they talked about their idealistic fallen comrade, but it wasn't long before they returned to the cold calculus of midterm elections. With Wellstone's death, the Senate is divided 49 to 49 to 1. If Coleman were to win, he would fill the vacancy immediately, and Republicans would suddenly have an advantage that could help them push through President Bush's struggling Homeland Security bill before the new year. Optimism, though, was hard to find among G.O.P. officials, who fear a possible repeat of what one G.O.P...
...award for Commonwealth writers went to a book published outside the mainstream houses - and outside London. So the man behind Canongate, Jamie Byng, got almost as many accolades as Martel himself. In 1994 Byng, then 26, paid less than $150,000 for the 26-year-old imprint, which had fallen on hard times. Byng's well-to-do family helped him come up with the cash - including step-father Christopher Bland, chairman of British Telecom. Byng, who began his career in 1992 as an unpaid intern at Canongate, was making $12,000 a year doing publicity for the company when...
...similar story. He expects exports of footwear to reach only $1.5 billion this year, down from $2.2 billion in 1996. The number of members in his association has dropped by more than half over the last 10 years; over the last six years, employment in shoe factories has fallen in half to 250,000. "If we look at our competitiveness, especially on price, we're not in a good position," he laments...
...years as coach, Parker’s squads have beaten their Yale counterparts in dual regattas a total of 33 times—including 18 straight victories from 1963-1980. Only on six occasions have his squads fallen to the boys from New Haven...