Word: fell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...virtually ceases to exist. The gravity of its tiny remnant is so great that nothing, not even light, can escape from it. All external evidence of its presence disappears, and the star, like the Cheshire cat, vanishes, leaving behind only the grin of its disembodied gravity. Anything that fell into such a "black hole" would quite literally be crushed out of existence...
Disillusionment set in as the outcome of the war necessarily fell short of expectations, and indeed as the one-sided nature of the peace required ever greater efforts to maintain it against countries with no stake in the settlement. A tide of isolationist sentiment rose, in which moral proclamations were coupled with an unwillingness to undertake concrete commitments. We were loath to face a world of imperfect security, alliances of convenience, recurrent crises and the need for a political structure that would secure the peace...
They need not have concerned themselves; from the second quarter on, growth rates turned down like a burned-out rocket. The rise in real G.N.P. fell to 4.5% in the second quarter, to 3.8% in the third, and is expected to be only about 3% this quarter. Unemployment bottomed out at 7.3% in May and then began rising once more. One measure of the setback: at midyear, economists believed that the jobless rate would fall below 7% by year's end. It now seems unlikely to get that low until a full year later−if then...
...woman, there's going to be at least one time you'll confront that--if you are black you will surely have to. If you're black and female it can be a double burden." But she stresses that they did not organize because they fell oppressed by the environment, but rather "because we had an incredibly strong sense that we can help one another to deal with...
Despite a trulyphenomenal performance by 6'5" guard Bob Hooft, the freshman cagers fell victim to St. Thomas More, 82-67, before a sparse crowd at the IAB last night...