Word: low
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stuff of which high drama, as well as low comedy, is often made. John Tower had served on the powerful Armed Services Committee for 20 years, four of them as its strong-willed chairman. Now a majority of former colleagues blocked his efforts to climb one more rung in his distinguished career. Moreover, and perhaps most demeaning, they ostensibly turned against him because of questions about his life-style, although his professional activities also worried them...
That lack of movement has left Greenspan little room to waver in the battle to keep inflation from getting out of hand. U.S. factories are running at near peak capacity, and unemployment has been at a 14-year low. The rising costs of production have prompted some experts to fear that an inflationary wage-price spiral could be ready to begin...
...have left many of them mired in poverty and despair. In Washington the Senate's Select Committee on Indian Affairs is holding hearings on the general state of Indian problems, and they seem to be no better than ever: a high rate of alcoholism and mortality, desperate health conditions, low employment and income, rampant child abuse. Bad enough that years of failed policies administered by the Bureau of Indian Affairs have contributed to the difficulties. Now the committee has discovered a style of corruption usually associated with the white...
Conflict of interest, low safety standards and exploitation of company benefits are just a few of the ethical dilemmas that business people face every day, panelists told the audience of about 40 people at Emerson Hall...
...They play a defensive style of game," Bourbeau said. "It will probably be a little low scoring, but it's big that we have home ice and we'll definitely put that to full...