Word: fallen
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...warrants don't look too promising, either. The stocks of most of the banks the Treasury has invested in have fallen in the past two months, rendering the warrants worthless, at least for now. Some of the warrants may never have any value. Shares of Goldman Sachs, for instance, were trading at an average of $113 in mid-October. That means the stock would have to climb nearly 60% from its current $71 before the government would be able to turn a profit exercising its Goldman warrants...
Lyudinovo is no stranger to unemployment: it suffered a bad bout in the early 1990s, when several of the town's factories closed and 4,000 workers lost their jobs. But by this October, after a run of good years, the number of unemployed people had fallen to just 320. That number doubled in November, and for next year all bets are off. "This is just the beginning," worries editor Pronin...
Barack Obama has quit smoking. Mostly. As he told Tom Brokaw in a Dec. 7 Meet the Press interview, he has "fallen off the wagon" occasionally. Oh, all right: When pressed, Obama said he'd "done a terrific job under the circumstances" of keeping up a healthy lifestyle. He has vowed not to break the current White House ban on smoking, but if Obama takes his nicotine addiction with him to the Oval Office, he'll have distinguished (if smelly) company...
...outbreak has incited violence in the streets. Last week, the government arrested several prominent Zimbabwean human rights activists after they helped carry out protests against Zimbabwe’s worsening economic and health crises. The death toll is edging toward a thousand people, and tens of thousands more have fallen ill. Zimbabwe has declared the events a national emergency. Fortunately, the Zimbabwean government has been open to aid from Western organizations. The World Health Organization (WHO), which has maintained a team in the region for several years, has been allowed to step up its efforts in light of the crisis...
Harvard is facing unprecedented losses to its endowment right now, which has fallen off 22 percent since June and may see further capital deterioration. In the face of such sobering performance, cutbacks are not ideal but are certainly necessary. In this trying time, reductions must be evenly and fairly distributed across all of FAS. The policy of freezing salaries and curtailing new hires is appropriate because it does not necessitate any drastic shifts in policy or practice within a department or campus body. Although this policy affects many people, it does so to a manageable degree in order to distribute...