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Word: low (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Measured in terms of its cost on a daily basis, the $5 billion price tag attached to the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty comes to about 1½? a day for each of us. That is low-cost insurance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 16, 1979 | 4/16/1979 | See Source »

...role cannot be eliminated without dire consequences. In some areas-New England, around Chicago, parts of the Southeast-atomic plants supply about half of all electricity. Shutting them would lead to blackouts and brownouts that would gravely threaten public health and safety. Electricity bills would soar, cruelly pinching low-income homeowners, as utilities were compelled to turn to higher-cost sources of energy. Some power companies would be forced to buy still more foreign oil at prices of up to $20 a barrel, fanning inflation, weakening the dollar and tying the U.S. energy future yet more tightly to the explosive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Looking Anew At The Nuclear Future | 4/16/1979 | See Source »

...ninth inning and allowing more than one baserunner in only, two frames. Mason registered one strike out and that on a questionable call. But the sophomore right-hander walked only two and had the defensive support to register a shutdown. "He wasn't spectacular, but he kept the ball low," Bingham said...

Author: By David A. Wilson, | Title: Black Bears Blank Batsmen In Cold Soldiers Field Debut | 4/14/1979 | See Source »

Kaufmann said unrestricted money made 75 per cent of the College Fund's contribution to the Faculty in 1972, and only 55 per cent this year. But Clifton said the unrestricted figure was at a temporary low because of bookkeeping quirks, and would soon rise to more desirable 65 per cent level...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bringing in Bucks | 4/14/1979 | See Source »

...design has some drawbacks, however, Lewis A. Law, associate director of the Science Center, said yesterday. "Back when the building was being planned, no one worried about energy because the costs were low," Law said. "This is 20-20 hindsight, but things certainly would be done differently if we were designing today," he added...

Author: By David A. Vicinanzo, | Title: Architects Honor Structure of Science Center | 4/11/1979 | See Source »

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