Word: lowered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cases, Kennedy's opinions have pleased the press. In 1978, for example, a plaintiff who had been convicted in an insurance scandal demanded to see film of a show NBC was preparing on the case, arguing that it might inflame public opinion and jeopardize his chances of parole. A lower court ordered NBC to surrender the film, but Kennedy struck down the ruling as being "aimed toward prepublication censorship." Said the judge: "It is a fundamental principle of the First Amendment that the press may not be required to justify or defend what it prints or says until after...
...computer program analyst to take up life as a painter. Croft has been accumulating cans, he says, to pay $11,486.72 he owes the Internal Revenue Service in back taxes. He insists that he plans to deliver his entire can stash to the district IRS office in lower Manhattan. IRS Spokesman Neil O'Keeffe says, "There's no provision for paying taxes with cans." So for all its utility, there is evidently one use to which the can cannot...
...economy. If the consumer in a recession gets picky, he will get picky about airline prices. As a lower-cost airline, we have an obvious ability to withstand a lower price structure. If you have fewer passengers chasing the same number of seats, prices go down. We could do it and be profitable. ((Traffic)) will go up. The question is who gets what share...
...think that next year the percentage of women [matriculants] may be 45 percent," said Harmeet K. Dhillon '89, a contributing editor to the Review who recently wrote a disapproving editorial on the college's proposal. "They're going to have to dip a bit lower into the [applicant] pool...
...more expensive, many U.S. manufacturers will jump at the opportunity to raise their prices too. A big danger is that the weak dollar will become a crutch for U.S. companies, undermining their incentive to become more efficient and hold prices down. Beyond that, the bargain-basement dollar, together with lower prices on Wall Street, may make U.S. industry increasingly vulnerable to takeovers by foreign buyers...