My heart had fallen a little on reading about Brief Encounters, the six-part heart-of-gold tale of sexual awakenings via Ann Summers parties in early-80s Yorkshire.
We were here because a decent young man, with his grandmother's sense of duty and his mother's warm heart, had fallen in love with a sweet young woman.
By the time everyone had picked their jaws off the floor, their hearts had fallen even harder.
"Our hearts have fallen — the master isn't coming," said Karma Yeshi, a monk and teacher at the Rumtek monastery, home to 150 monks in the Himalayas in the erstwhile kingdom annexed to India in 1975.
Smoking too, one of the key causes of heart disease, has fallen.
Once a horse's heart rate has fallen, veterinarians check for lameness, listen to its gut for signs of trouble and look for other injuries.
The overall rate of heart donations has fallen over the 20-year period for Wales, Scotland and England Northernn Ireland shows fluctuations with no consistent trend.
Although mortality from coronary heart disease has fallen over recent decades, annually it still claims an estimated 1.8 million lives in Europe, 7 and 785 000 new and 470 000 recurrent myocardial infarctions occur in the US. 8 In the UK, around 110 000 men and 65 000 women have an acute myocardial infarction every year, equivalent to one every three minutes.
The profitability of share-trading by large investors, which used to be at the heart of brokerage, has fallen since the collapse of the dotcom boom.
Employee productivity is the linchpin of reviving the economy, but Samuelson doesn't get to the heart of why productivity has fallen.
