Word: fallings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...largest percentage drop among the Ivies, Dartmouth received more than 8400 applications, an 18 percent fall from last year's record setting...
...first decrease in applications this decade, Cornell received over 19,700 applications for entrance next fall, an 8.7 percent decline over last year's all-time high...
Applications to Cornell and Dartmouth plummeted this year in record-setting numbers that are representative of the fall in applications throughout the Ivy League...
...Washington titans fall not from a single blow but from a thousand small cuts. Few believe Tower could survive a "no" from Nunn. Even if the Bush Administration prevailed in a confirmation fight, Nunn could make life so miserable that Tower might wish he were back speculating in an enlightened way for the LTV company. But Nunn has been careful to leave himself the option of voting...
...Brown's fall from the top of the charts to a four-man prison cell has been going on for several years. In 1985 the IRS slapped a lien on his 62-acre spread on rural Beech Island, about ten miles outside Augusta, and he was forced to auction it off. His eight-year marriage to Adrienne, his third wife, has been tempestuous. Last April she filed suit against him for assault, then dropped the charge. (Among other things, he allegedly ventilated her $35,000 black mink coat with bullets...