Word: lowered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...must have seemed like some nightmarish Nutrition Court. One after another, popular foods from butter to beef have been hauled into the dock and charged with crimes against health and humanity. "Guilty," the jury of popular and scientific opinion has snapped each time. The punishment: a sentence to suffer lower sales and market shares. Bang of gavel. But these days, food manufacturers have wised up. They are now mounting aggressive advertising campaigns to press claims that their products have got a bum rap and to extoll the benefits of the genuine article. Enter the rehabilitation of real food...
...segregation of this Black lower-class was clear to me when I visited Spelman College, a prestigious Black women's school, and the adjacent Moorhouse College for men. I saw the manicured yards and red brick buildings of Harvard, parking lots packed with Porsches and BMWs, and students in designer outfits...
Sanctions have not, however, been wholly toothless. South Africa's economy, which has been in recession for the past five years, is expected to grow this year by 2% to 3%, a rate that one State Department analyst estimates to be perhaps one percentage point lower than if sanctions had not been imposed. South African exports to the European Community in the first quarter of 1987 plunged 33% below those of the same period last year, and the first half's decline in shipments to the U.S. came to a hefty...
These figures come across loud and clear to some of the sharpest of today's college-bound women, 24% of whom say they are interested in pursuing a business major -- twice the proportion 20 years ago and only 2% lower than the men's figure. Some are also aware of studies suggesting that female egos take a subtle but destructive pounding in coed classrooms. A report released last fall by the Carnegie Foundation found that "even the brightest women students often remain silent" in mixed classes. "Not only do men talk more, but what they say often carries more weight...
...naval bases in Hawaii, the Philippines and Japan, the investigators concluded that in both services "the encouragement of a macho-male image contributes to behavior that is at best inappropriate and at worst morally repugnant." Both men and women in the Navy and Marines sometimes demand sexual favors from lower-ranking servicewomen, the investigators found...