Word: fallenness
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Grays Harbor, a foggy bay 90 minutes outside Seattle, has been known for two things: paper mills and the rock star Kurt Cobain, who was born there in 1967. Both are memories now, and in recent years the area had fallen on the hard times familiar to blue-collar communities across the U.S. But Grays Harbor is showing new color, thanks in part to the Seattle biofuel company Imperium Renewables, which just opened the nation's largest biodiesel plant there. The four-month-old refinery positively gleams (and smells vaguely like lawn clippings because of the vegetable oil used...
...arrived in Paris this September, he didn’t expect the sharp difference in prices. “There was definitely a [price] sticker shock,” he said. “I was not totally prepared.” In the past year, the dollar has fallen by 5 percent against the pound and 10 percent against the euro, hitting record lows. At press time, one euro was worth 1.46 dollars, according to the Bloomberg currency exchange. Students abroad this term made their decision to leave last March, when the outlook wasn’t quite...
...engaging, energizing beats. Ghostface relies heavily on Diddy’s production crew, The Hitmen (Sean C. and L.V.), who mostly just contribute mediocrity, as they did on Jay-Z’s recent “American Gangster.” But Ghostface hasn’t really fallen off, either. He still spins some good yarns, as on “Yolanda’s House” and “Shakey Dog Starring Lolita,” a somewhat disjointed sequel to a track on last year’s “Fishscale...
...those Indians rich enough to travel abroad and buy luxury imports have been made even richer by the falling dollar. The prices of some imported televisions, computers and digital cameras has fallen by around 10% in the past month or so, as inventory bought at the new exchange rates starts hitting the shelves. Also cheaper are the cost of some overseas flights and hotel rooms, especially in the U.S. "We've definitely seen growth in outbound traffic since the rupee started strengthening, both at the individual level and at the corporate level," says Madhavan Menon, the managing director of travel...
...Skating is a novel experience for most of those venturing onto the ice, and teams of white-helmeted city workers are constantly rushing to help citizens who've fallen on their faces...