Word: lowered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...very close now. I heard a sinister scraping inches from my left ear, and then I felt one end of the couch settle over my feet and legs. Then Betsy lifted the near end over me and dropped it with sickening force on lower...
...notice my torment or it might have thrown them off, although they showered me with sympathy and apologies after the show. The rest of my death was pretty uneventful. The bleeding soon stopped, and I realized that what in my initial panic I had thought to be a shattered lower jaw was in fact only a superficial scrape. I was kicked once or twice and stepped on, and had my hair pulled three times before the curtain call, but I bore it all with equanimity. The worst was over...
...stamp out the incentive for aliens to enter the U.S. illegally, the law cracks down on businesses that offer them jobs. Beginning June 1, every employer in America, from the Beverly Hills housewife who takes on a Mexican gardener to the Lower Manhattan garmentmaker who hires dozens of Chinese seamstresses, must become a kind of INS agent. Employers must demand such documents as a U.S. passport or birth certificate, proof of naturalization or a resident-alien card, and then complete an I-9 verification form for each employee...
...prelude to Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone's visit to Washington this week, Special Envoy Shintaro Abe was dispatched to the White House to outline a plan to reduce Japan's $59 billion trade surplus with the U.S. Meanwhile, a U.S. delegation in Tokyo urged the Japanese to lower barriers to American goods...
...killing of a lifetime" -- about $150 million -- by switching from dollar investments into Japanese yen. He took the plunge after learning that top officials of the five largest industrial countries (Britain, France, Japan, West Germany, the U.S.) had met at Manhattan's Plaza Hotel. Soros' guess: the five would lower the value of the dollar against other major currencies...