Word: fell
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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NEWTON--In one of its best efforts of this season, the Harvard field hockey team fell to Boston College, 2-1, here in overtime last night...
Harvard jumped to a 1-0 halftime lead, fell behind, 2-1, in the second half but evened the game at two before the end of regulation. Tiger midfielder Heidi Ludtke scored a goal off a corner five minutes into overtime, finishing the Crimson...
...exports widened to $12.2 billion, up from July's $9.5 billion. While the deficit has been shrinking this year -- to an estimated total of $140 billion, compared with $170 billion in 1987 -- progress may be slowing. That prospect has aborted the U.S. dollar's summer rally. The currency fell last week to 128.25 yen, capping a decline of 4% since August. The plunging dollar reflected the belief among traders that a weaker currency will be necessary to wean U.S. consumers from foreign imports...
...Spanish conquistadores who fell upon Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital, in 1520 came to establish the old order in the New World. They came as agents of the King and God. They also came in search of gold, and they came without women. Just as Mexico City was constructed on the ruins of Tenochtitlan, the new societies throughout Hispanic America sprang from the loins of the defeated Aztecs, Mayas and Incas. Nearly a century later, English settlers arrived in North America for different reasons. Accompanied by their families and not haunted by visions of gold, they sought less to conquer than...
...United Arab Emirates -- have opened their spigots, increasing OPEC's total output nearly 10%, to 21 million bbl. a day. Because worldwide demand for OPEC's crude amounts to only about 19 million bbl., the overflow has created a price-dampening glut. West Texas Intermediate, the benchmark U.S. crude, fell earlier this month to $12.60 per bbl., a drop of nearly $3 from its level in August and more than $7 from a year ago. The price edged upward last week, closing at $14.92 per bbl., reflecting expectations among oil traders that the glut may soon inspire OPEC...