Word: bottomed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...women with children under 18, feel their status has been depreciated by feminism. Sighs Dabney McKenzie of Montgomery, who describes herself as both a "feminist" and a "typical Southern housewife": "It's almost as if there's a caste system of employment, and motherhood is down there at the bottom...
...bottom line is that the plaintiffs are saying that the 10 percent cap should apply in Cambridge, and it is the city's position that it does not apply," Drisdell said...
...most Western diplomats believe the Communists, even transformed from top to bottom, probably would not win more than 10% of the popular vote if elections were really free. The party has lost an estimated 600,000 of its 2.5 million members in recent months. By some accounts, half the membership would not even vote Communist...
...million, it did so only because Sotheby's had persuaded the heirs to accept a "global reserve" (the minimum price acceptable to the seller on the whole collection), instead of placing a reserve, or minimum, on each lot, as is more usual. This enabled Sotheby's to meet the bottom line by selling 15 out of 44 impressionist and modern paintings far under its low estimate, rather than not sell them at all -- and gamble on making up the slack over the next three days...
...market, just like the communications industry, could implode into six or seven megadealers, each with an international corporate base formed by gobbling up aging or lesser competitors. The middle rank of dealers will have been squeezed out by the raids on their artists and stock, and at the bottom of the heap a litter of small galleries, treated as seedbeds by those on top, will be kept to service the impression of healthy diversity...