Word: falling
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Managers of Vie de France, which quit business last fall, said in December that building owners Dupree Associates planned to hike rents more than 50 percent to more than $30 per square foot. A neighboring lease holder in the building, the Penguin Bookshop, also quit business that month...
During the fall, SPOA members focused their efforts on the campaign to pass Proposition 1-2-3, a ballot referendum that would have drastically overturned rent control. But in the wake of 1-2-3's defeat, the small property owners have proved to be no less vocal a presence in the meetings...
GEORGIA. Violence flared over the release of four Ossetians detained in connection with the fatal shooting of a nine-month-old infant last fall. Ossetian activists are campaigning for greater autonomy and cries persist to ) "overthrow the Communist regime in the republic." In Kareli, 50 miles northwest of Tbilisi, protesters demanding independence drove government workers out of their offices...
...fall shall make me famous through the world...
...meet basic requirements, essentially: 1) a C average in eleven high school core subjects and 2) a score of 700 (on a scale of 400 to 1,600) on the SAT or 15 (on a scale of 1 to 36) on the ACT. Since disproportionate numbers of blacks fall short on these tests, Proposition 42 was widely denounced as racist. Yet instead of repealing it, as many blacks demanded, the NCAA settled for a compromise that takes effect in August. On the one hand, athletes who do not make the grade academically can receive scholarships based on need...