That campaign indisputably helped compel the apartheid regime to abandon its racist policy and ultimately contributed to the government's fall from power.

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But a fall from power can be especially painful for underdogs that fall from a height that, by some measures, it never should have reached.

WSJ: Social Media

When the LDP lost its majority there after the Recruit influence-peddling scandal of the late 1980s, that presaged the party's historic, though temporary, fall from power in 1993.

CNN: NEW EYE OF THE STORM

Mr Carter has a good feel for the arc America traced from the buoyant post-war optimism of the Apollo programme across the bridge of the Vietnam war to the pessimism surrounding Nixon's fall from power.

ECONOMIST: New fiction

Solar energy proponents want the price of solar electricity to fall so that it could better compete with cheaper power from coal and natural gas power plants.

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However, Tim Donoghue's Kissinger is not playing ball with the president's pitches, his outward containment a mask for his own desperation to salvage power from the wreckage of Nixon's fall.

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With little or no help from EPA, power sector coal consumption is expected to fall 2% this year and 4% next year.

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The price of solar power still has far to fall before it is cheaper than electricity generated from fossil fuels even if governments jack up fossil-fuel prices to reflect the cost of carbon emissions.

ECONOMIST: Solar power

Envisaged investment in infrastructure declined by 52 per cent to Rs1.0 trillion from Rs2.2 trillion in the previous year, with power and telecom accounting for most of this fall.

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