Word: lowerator
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...growing chorus of market watchers says no. The concern is that the stock market is overwrought and that down is the only sensible direction to head. Sure, individual companies have been quick to bounce lower based on bad news. Both insurance outfits and financial firms lost ground on Tuesday thanks to two big events - the passage of a health-reform bill by a key Senate committee and a Goldman Sachs downgrade by an influential banks analyst. (Read "How to Know When the Economy Is Turning...
...Highlighting the plight of childless uninsured adults is also a welcome counterbalance to media coverage of the issue, which often focuses on uninsured children and families. Amid the grim statistics, the foundation mentions a bright spot: the fact that recent expansion of children's health-care programs has helped lower the number of uninsured children. The notion that young people should have access to adequate health care has long drawn bipartisan political support; reaching that same goal with adults has, until now, proven far more difficult to accomplish...
...significance of whatever effect, if any, the vaccine appeared to have, says Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. "When you lose statistical power, something that would have been significant in the [original, larger] population, could now fall below significance merely by the lower numbers. That's what happened with this trial," Fauci says...
...Created a tent city to house more inmates at lower cost. Installed a neon sign on a guard tower that reads "Vacancy...
...various mafia clans, who rarely get their own hands dirty. Under the statute, leading an underground criminal group is now punishable by life in prison. "As a rule, [the dons] don't directly participate in criminal acts, and so they go unpunished," Oleg Morozov, deputy speaker of Russia's lower house of parliament, wrote last month on his party's website. "The president's legislation gives more precise definitions of what can be called a criminal conspiracy and a criminal organization...