Word: fallen
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...thought. It's not a slide, it's a see saw. One day they're up, the next day they're down. For a week we've been hearing that it's only a matter of days before the city falls to the Northern Alliance, but it hasn't fallen...
...villagers in Khrum and in roadside bazaars along the way made no secret at their displeasure over the presence of Pakistani journalists in our group. Earlier, aggrieved Khrum villagers had tried to attack Western reporters with the spades and shovels they had been using to remove rubble of their fallen houses. First you drop bombs and then come here to take pictures of our misery, one shouted...
Gazing out of these windows, passengers are reminded that non-students live in Cambridge too. Cute houses and droves of cars line the streets where lovers walk hand-in-hand through piles of fallen leaves. Harvard first-years can be spotted stampeding like herds of cattle to this or that rumored party carrying not-so-discreet brown bags. FM can only speculate about the contents...
...Taliban, of course, has not yet fallen, and the U.N. Security Council focused on the issue of relief aid. But there was no consensus among council members on peacekeeping - hardly surprising, since most established armies would have no greater enthusiasm than their U.S. counterparts for such a risky deployment, and a post-Taliban Afghanistan remains a geopolitical chessboard on which the interests of Iran, Russia, China, Pakistan, India, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and the U.S. all compete. Even as it balanced all of these competing interests, Secretary General Kofi Annan warned that the U.N. would have to move with uncharacteristic nimbleness...
...commerce boom and whose market share last year reached 35%--three times greater than Compaq's. Thought by many to be untouchable, the company's stock slid through 2001, the result of new competitive pressures and a slowing economy. EMC revealed in July that its second-quarter earnings had fallen 71%. A week after the terror attacks, EMC forecasted a loss for the first time in 11 years and announced 2,400 layoffs. Still, the company--with its competitors and analysts--understands its leadership position and the advantages big firms enjoy during hard times. "The weak will fall...