Word: fallings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...break with its tradition of political neutrality, Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) yesterday announced its formal opposition to the fall ballot referendum Proposition...
...brunt of the ban will fall on the Far East. Hong Kong's traders have a 700-ton ivory stockpile that they will be unable to sell anywhere except within that colony. Japan, which has consumed about 40% of all ivory in recent years, abstained from the vote at Lausanne. Japanese officials say they intend to honor the prohibition...
...pivotal two-hour meeting, Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady, a former Wall Streeter, huddled with Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, and Richard Breeden, head of the Securities and Exchange Commission. Sifting through the latest market data, the trio concluded that the Dow Jones industrial average would fall more than 50 points when the New York Stock Exchange opened Monday, but then would probably rebound as buyers began to snap up shares at bargain prices...
...state and local officials were collecting congratulations on their efforts last week, troubling questions were being raised about two catastrophes: the collapse of a stretch of Interstate 880 in Oakland and the fall of a 50-ft. span on the Bay Bridge, which connects Oakland and San Francisco. In concentrating on the destructive potential of buildings, had government disaster planners overlooked the fragile condition of heavily traveled highways and bridges...
...principle of disintegration -- the disintegration not only of architecture and pavements and lives but also of the entire idea of order, of process and human control. "What can one believe quite safe," asked Seneca, "if the world itself is shaken, and its most solid parts totter to their fall . . . and the earth lose its chief characteristic, stability?" The familiar world goes rioting down to rubble. Reality comes to rest at a crazy angle...