Word: low
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Meyer's Proposition 1-2-3 includes three changes in rent control that would cut the number of apartments the system affects. They would also change the system from one that keeps rents low regardless of the occupant's income to a housing program designed specifically for the poor...
Verba said that polling data which show that people are not attracted to either presidential candidate should mean an especially low level of voter turnout on November...
...election in the Heitgers' neighborhood may come down to a referendum on the economy. Republican claims of continued prosperity were bolstered by Friday's announcement that unemployment dropped 0.2 points in September, to 5.4%. But the Democratic argument that most new jobs tend to be low-paying was also bolstered, by a 1.3% decline in inflation-adjusted hourly wage rates...
...Danner, one of several good actors wasted). "This town -- it just brings out the extremes in me," says Nick. And in Tattingers as well. The '80s genre of tony ensemble dramas, which started with Hill Street Blues and runs through L.A. Law, has finally crossed paths with Dynasty's low-road glitz...
...shopping, the eastern "City of Angels" has already begun to eclipse Hong Kong and Singapore as the bargain basement of the East, its low prices beaten even lower in a minuet of smiles and shrugs and bartered murmurings of "Mai pen rai," or "Never mind." Temptations are ubiquitous. Stalls line the main streets of the city from morning to midnight, hawking $10 "Rolexes," 80 cents pirated cassettes, silk ties and suitcases and noodles; river markets assemble impromptu on the canals at dawn; and 40 shiny department stores sell everything from computerized horoscopes to tiger cubs. In Bangkok, moreover, high standards...