Meanwhile, in the game world, Columbia floats above it, blending old-time religion and futuristic technology, preparing to rain fire on the fallen world.
It has been inaccurately described as the "ground zero mosque, " a ridiculous term considering it will be two blocks away from the site of the fallen World Trade Center towers.
But if faith teaches us anything, it should be that our nostalgia is for an ideal we can only find after accepting, and passing through, the brokenness of a fallen world.
The farmers were offered half or less than half of the outstanding money as they were told that the prices had fallen on world markets.
Resuming Vile Bodies, he took a more vengeful course that would indict the fallen, feckless world that had betrayed him. (He would later, in A Handful of Dust, more roundly and explicitly indict his ex-wife).
Every year since 1990, the number of children under the age of five dying from preventable causes around the world has fallen, which shows just what happens when we as an international community commit to saving the lives of children around the world.
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But investment has fallen in the rich world too: the rivers of capital have flowed not directly into businesses but into markets for consumer and government credit, where they are presumably doing little to increase the recipient economy's ability to repay the loans in the future.
That's the proposed replacement for the fallen twin towers at the World Trade Center site.
It is true that union membership has fallen precipitously across the rich world, from a third of America's workforce in 1950 to just over a tenth today, for example.
And I think that says a lot about how far Assad has fallen in the eyes of the world, not to mention in the eyes of his own people.
But his unceremonious ouster from the company he created speaks, too, to how online and mobile coupons -- for a brief, shining moment the darlings of the tech world -- have fallen out of favor.
Her admission that her marriage had fallen apart won her sympathy throughout the world.
He is still seeking his first victory this season, having fallen to No. 2 in the world rankings behind Tiger Woods.
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"We've fallen off the face of the AltaVista world, " sighs Klemm.
One is of a glut: the world price of soya has fallen by 40% from its March peak, mainly because of lower demand in China.
The FTSE Islamic Index has fallen 41 percent, and the all-world index 44 percent, similar losses over the past six months.
He is convinced that American power must be harnessed as a force for good in the world and that it has uniquely fallen to him be the agent that pushes America towards constructive engagement in support of liberal democratic values and decency.
We know that we have fallen from 7th in reading to 25th in the world.
Alarmists claim global warming causes more frequent and severe hurricanes, yet objective, real-world data show recent hurricane activity has fallen to record lows.
If silicon had remained high priced it might even have worked: but as they were ramping up production into a world where the raw silicon ingot had just fallen to 10% of its previous price they were doomed.
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All things tech and gadgetry this week have fallen into the long shadow that Steve Jobs cast over the world of innovation.
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Basic interest rates, in a country that for years had the highest in the world, have been systematically reduced and have now fallen to 7.25%, the lowest in recent history.
It was not surprising, then, that its exports should have fallen in the past year as the technology bubble burst and the world's biggest economies headed for recession.
Jack Straw and Peter Mandelson contacted police after the paper revealed they may have fallen victim to Rees, who worked for the News of the World and Mirror Group titles.
In these 29 countries, life expectancy has been reduced on average by seven years: in Botswana, the world's most afflicted place, life expectancy has fallen to 47 from 61 in the late 1980s.
In a memo released to the company's 70, 000 employees ahead of an investor conference in New York, Delta, the world's largest airline, said passenger revenues have fallen 20 percent in the first four months of 2009 compared to the same time last year.
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Since then, because hardly any new money has been flowing into Asian markets and because India is being painted with the same brush as the rest of Asia's and the world's emerging markets, the Indian market has fallen, too, and money has flown out of Indian stocks.
By venturing into the banking world, Virgin is becoming part of an industry that has fallen out of favor with both the public and politicians.
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