"It was in a free fall and it was a very scary period,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.20

What ended up happening is, you know the news, Rupert Murdoch bought The Wall Street Journal last fall and he announced that Wall Street Journal-- WSJ.com--will no longer be free.

最后的结果是,你们知道那条新闻的吧,鲁珀特·默多克去年秋天收购了《华尔街日报》,他宣布《华尔街日报》,WSJ.com,将不再免费

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His presidency began before a crowd a million strong, but when the cheering stopped, he was one man dealing with overlapping crises: an economy in free fall and two unpopular wars.

VOA: standard.2010.01.16

Strauss-Kahn told an audience for 2010 at Washington's National Press Club that there are signs that the free-fall in the global economy may be starting to abate.

VOA: standard.2009.04.16