Word: leveller
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Area 4 desperately needs a teen center, neighborhood activists testified. Quoting the 1980 census, they said it has the lowest family income in the city and the largest number of female-headed single-parent house-holds, with 28 percent of its population below the poverty level...
...devices consist of rockets that whip the astronauts clear of the shuttle one by one, and a pole that allows them to slide out until they are clear of the craft's wing. But both are designed to be used only when the shuttle is flying more or less level, at altitudes of up to 20,000 ft. -- well inside the earth's atmosphere. That might do some good in a mission aborted before going into orbit, or in the case of an anticipated crash landing. However, says ex-Shuttle Astronaut Donald Peterson, "it's like putting an emergency escape...
...alarming amounts of skin bouncing off the wall. "I was the luger who dripped blood," Tucker says. The next ( summer he recruited Muniz, who had schemed to represent Puerto Rico as a kayaker. "Misery loves company," explains Muniz. Argentine Ruben Gonzalez, a chemist, claims yet another distinction. "At any level, I am the only luger in South America." His level leaves an area for improvement just slightly smaller than the pampas...
...rising level of federal Medicaid reimbursement to the states, which helps pay for medical care for the poor, could be better controlled by pegging increases to the Consumer Price Index. The National Institutes of Health, whose budget has increased more than 50% since 1981, could withstand a 5% cutback without endangering vital programs...
Spending cuts over the next four years will slow the accumulation of the national debt and thus reduce the projected level of federal interest payments...