Word: plummetted
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Sheldon's relatively sudden plummet from national celebrity into obscurity bruised his ego, Holt says...
...like the beetle, minitel is in danger of becoming outmoded. With monthly Minitel fees rising just as PC prices are starting to plummet, some users are turning to multimedia vehicles that can connect them with the Internet, or to more varied commercial services. France Telecom is struggling mightily to keep its Minitel lead, partly by forming strategic alliances with foreign communications groups (including AT&T, Sony, Motorola and Apple), but the French effort, like others in Europe, is burdened by the weight of the European Union's burgeoning bureaucracy, which is increasingly inserting barriers across the Continent's communications throughways...
...Zedillo, they loom large as well for Bill Clinton. Little more than a year ago, the Administration sold NAFTA to Congress by arguing, among other things, that locking in low tariffs would boost the American trade surplus by making U.S. products cheaper in Mexico. Thanks to the peso's plummet, American-made goods could now be as much as 50% more expensive for Mexican consumers. Products from herbal shampoos to frozen desserts sold south of the border will be hard hit. "The peso has been devalued," says Texas A&M trade specialist James Giermanski, "to the point where it really...
After his Finance Minister said publicly just 10 days earlier that the currency would not be devalued, Zedillo used the occasion of a potential December uprising in Chiapas first to nudge the peso downward, then abruptly to let it float against the dollar. Plummet is what it did instead. In a world where international investment money can cross borders with a few taps on a computer keyboard, a thunder of key taps arose from the offices of stunned investment-fund managers in New York City and other financial centers. As they swiftly dumped Mexican securities, the peso went into...
...with O.J. or his ex-wife to tell them a story. Whether these tales are based in reality or in their own money-hungry delusion is another issue. Jurors, if selected, could refuse to support a majority verdict to later attract a book contract. At this rate, unemployment should plummet and people might have enough money to buy a second Bronco...