Word: fallen
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Fractious politics are a Belgian speciality: in the past decade the government has fallen eight times. Belgians have instead looked to their monarch, Baudouin, for stability -- until last week, when the King became a commoner for two days. Confronted with a bill passed by parliament that legalized abortion, Baudouin, a devout Roman Catholic, had the Cabinet declare him unable to reign so he could avoid signing the measure into law. The Cabinet promulgated the law instead...
...almost all of our important institutions and their leaders have fallen sharply in the public's estimation. Continued attacks of a careless nature could needlessly deplete society's trust even more and impair the work of organizations on which our welfare ultimately depends...
...last straw--what made my blood boil, my hair stand on end, and what spurred me to take a firm, no-nonsense stand--was hearing the Japanese suggest that it is our fault that a trade deficit exists, our fault that the quality of American goods has fallen, and our fault that we're no longer the foremost economic power in the world...
Straightening out the mess took nearly four weeks, a dozen phone calls and a visit to the local Social Security office, where I had to sign an affidavit attesting, "I am indeed alive and well . . ." As it turned out, I had fallen victim to the single most common credit-record error: cross-merged files. In such cases, which according to Williams afflict as many as one of every eight credit consumers, people with similar names or addresses have their credit histories mixed together. Often this occurs when a John Doe Sr. and Jr. live at the same address. Another common...
Czech president and playwright Vaclav Havel will not speak at this year's Commencement Exercises, declining the Harvard invitation because the speech would have fallen just one day before his country's first free elections since World...