Word: fallen
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Since the strike began, air traffic has fallen from an average of 268,000 passengers a week to just 119,000 recently. In a sprawling land where air transportation is vital to daily commerce, the strike is strangling the economy. Hardest hit is tourism, Australia's largest industry. If the strike persists until Christmas, the country's tourism revenues could decline $500 million this year, a 30% drop from 1988. In Melbourne alone, 417 conferences and conventions have been canceled. Unless the strike is settled soon, travel industry experts say that three-fourths of Australia's large hotel chains will...
...predictability does not make it any easier to stop. Just ask the six Ivy squads who have fallen to the Elis this season. Given Yale's accomplishments, there is obviously some validity to the bone as an effective offensive philosophy...
...more than 50 years, Social Security has been the cornerstone of liberal efforts to fight poverty. And it has been effective. The rate of poverty among the elderly has fallen from about one in three to less than...
...fact, the smuggling industry has been so effective that cocaine prices might have fallen further. But the entrepreneurial response among street-level dealers was to begin moving crack. The smokable, highly addictive form of the drug has increased demand and sales volume...
...peacekeepers in Namibia reported that the country was "exceptionally calm." South Africa's actions appeared to be a last pre-election blast against SWAPO, which is favored to win and install a leftist government on South Africa's border. Pretoria retreated by week's end, saying it might have fallen for a hoax...