Word: fallenness
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...Detroit had drawn a road map for Toyota and Honda. And the Japanese drove right in, decimating the U.S. companies. In 1979, GM's U.S. employment peaked at 618,365. Today it's at 75,000 and falling fast. GM's U.S. market share, once about 50%, has fallen to about 20%. True, the quality and efficiency of American cars have improved dramatically, but it may be too late...
...Twilight not just in America. The shadow has fallen over the entire globe. "It didn't really get out of hand until Italy," Weitz says - he filmed scenes in the Tuscan hill town of Montepulciano. "The streets were filled with fans. The nice thing was that they weren't interested in hampering the filming at all. When you asked the crowd of 1,000 people to be quiet, they were absolutely silent. But then when you finished a take, there would be a round of applause, which doesn't happen on a film...
Since the 1970s, when Pap testing became a part of routine gynecological exams, the rate of cervical cancer in the U.S. has fallen more than 50% - in 1975 there were 14.8 cases per 100,000 women, and by 2006, only 6.5 per 100,000 women. But the cancer, which is primarily caused by infection with the sexually transmitted human papillomavirus (HPV), is rare among teens under 20. Only about 14 cases are reported each year in the U.S. in teenagers, compared with 123 cases among women ages 20 to 24, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
...other hand, even Oprah isn't invincible. In the past five years, her ratings have fallen 35% - and 43% among adults 18-49. That's not a lot more than other talk shows, nor other daytime programs, but it means that she is not immune from the woes that plague lesser TV mortals. Without that big reliable pulpit in the public marketplace, how much power does Oprah wield? Does she have enough juice to convert most of her viewers to a cable channel? To develop a following for new Dr. Phils? To get Tom Cruise to jump on her couch...
...last meteors had fallen and most students returned for a few hours of rest before class...