He was on the high wall, way above all the other players, and had a great fall.
Combine this finicky expectation of loss with a kind of arrogance ("They make toys out there in Silicon Valley, " Olsen famously said) and you have the makings of a great fall.
But although all the excited talk about a great fall in standards seems ill-founded, evidence does exist that as pupils have become increasingly aware of which subjects are the hardest to pass they have deserted them.
Anglo soon had its great fall rendering Quinn with 455 million euros of immediate debt to the bank, and the Humpty Dumpty of Irish speculative madness was never to be put back together again since its collapse.
And the lack of traffic means that the collection of medieval villages that now constitute this great international city fall into geographical context.
And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it.
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To get under 2:04 would take a great effort and to fall lower is possible.
Great ideas could easily fall apart on paper or, worse still, in the marketplace.
Look for the Great Tax Debate this fall to be resolved sometime after the Nov. 2 elections.
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In that certain sense, prices rise and fall with great regularity as consumers tell producers what they want less and more of.
But one answer can be glimpsed from a contemporary study, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, by Yale historian Paul Kennedy.
Fall is a great time to try excellent places to eat at from the best restaurants in New York City to the top restaurants of Los Angeles.
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Thus it happens that during an economic bust, like the one in 1990, bookstore shelves sag with gloomy titles, such as The Age of Diminished Expectations, Econoquake and The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers.
The eminent historian Paul Kennedy wrote a book entitled The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers in which he argued that powerful countries typically undercut their economic strength by trying to control too much territory, leading to their decline.
Yet the history that Mr Milosz has witnessed epitomises the tragic story of Europe for nearly a century: from the first world war to the fall of the great monarchies, from Auschwitz and the Warsaw ghetto to the imposition of Soviet control, from the struggles of Solidarity to the globalised market-place.
There are a great many titles being released this fall, vying to work their way into your budget.
Russia was gunning to build a 100 megaton H-bomb but decided against it because the nuclear fall out was too great.
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That said, the competitiveness of British companies has been improved by the prolonged fall, since the great crash of 2007 to 2008, in the value of the pound.
According to which you believe, great earthquakes will cause California to fall into the Pacific, tidal waves will devastate coastal cities, or the earth's crust will shift.
Assuming the proverbial desert island with just a few inhabitants, if suddenly a great deal of money were to fall from the sky, no real wealth or economic growth will have been achieved for the arrival of the money that on its own is not wealth.
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While the actual rate of infertility among people 18 to 29 years old is 8 percent, a great deal more think they may fall into that category -- 59 percent of women and 49 percent of men said it is at least slightly likely they are infertile, and 75 percent of people who had concerns about fertility did not worry about it because of information from a doctor.
Fall in Michigan is a great time to take a vacation, paint the house or go hunting.
While Buffett has enjoyed great success as an investor, the fall-off demonstrates the painful limitations of his philosophy: Buy good companies he understands and hold on to them forever.
In 1939, with the country still reeling from the effects of the Great Depression, Thanksgiving once again threatened to fall on the last day of November.
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As the Lakers and Celtics grow old and fall apart, the NBA will need another great rivalry to take their place.
The launch of the fall TV season used to be a time of great expectations.
They are great for filling seats between big release seasons like summer and fall.
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The vintner called the product a special tribute to his Great-Grandfather, James Concannon, whose birthday happens to fall on St.
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The fall in oil prices since August has been a great help, at a stroke both bringing down headline inflation rates and boosting the incomes of consumers.
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