Word: lowered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...signed by Alfonsin in early June, only about 50 Argentines, including former top government officials, military commanders and police chiefs, are subject to prosecution for crimes, such as murder, kidnaping and torture, that were carried out during the period. The law in effect grants amnesty to hundreds of lower-ranking officers on the ground that by following orders, they were merely observing "due obedience" to their military superiors...
...public schools unless it was accompanied by the teaching of "creation science." This is the belief that some 6,000 years ago the earth and all living things were suddenly created in a process similar to that detailed in Genesis. Aguillard successfully challenged the creationism statute in two lower federal courts and last week reaped his biggest victory...
...Hitler's Germany." I must disagree with the word fully. If this were so, why were the French Jews in the Vichy-controlled territory not ordered to wear the Star of David as in other Nazi-controlled countries? And why was the percentage of deported French Jews so much lower than that of other occupied countries...
...United pilots had never forgiven Ferris for a bitter 1985 labor confrontation. The chairman demanded that United employees accept a two-tier wage system that would relegate newly hired pilots to a lower pay scale. In protest the pilots staged a 29-day strike, but Ferris prevailed and set up the new wage system anyway. He insisted that the carrier needed lower costs to meet the challenge of cut-rate competitors like Texas Air, which through a series of mergers has eclipsed Allegis to become the largest U.S. airline company, with both Continental and Eastern now under its wing...
Their day began with a 6 a.m. jog, followed by breakfast, interviews with the press and a book-signing appearance. By afternoon they were on Manhattan's Lower East Side to announce a major housing initiative for the poor and visit an apartment house they helped rehabilitate two summers ago. Such a hectic schedule might tax a brace of yuppies but not Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter. Looking refreshed and relaxed last week as they sat together in their New York City hotel suite, Jimmy, 62, and Rosalynn, 59, are clearly exhilarated by all the fanfare for their new book, Everything...