Word: lowered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Captain Erin Sugrue continued her tremendous season, capturing the high jump and the 100-meter high hurdles, while placing second in the triple jump. Sugrue's winning jump in the high jump was 5-ft., 6-in.--six inches lower than her personal best--while her time in the hurdles was 14.55 seconds...
That was clearly not Castro's intention. Complaining that too many Cubans were committing the sin of "trying to get rich individually," he launched a crackdown. He ordered the farmers' stands replaced by state-run enterprises that sometimes charge lower prices but, consumers now complain, offer much less variety. The new rules for dwellings did not preclude Cubans who want to profit from buying and selling their own homes. But in an effort to end the speculation that had begun creeping into the market, homeowners are now allowed to sell only to the government -- at its price. "The glories...
...sophisticated method of using powerful computers to package traditional loans into securities. The new instruments are then bought and sold like conventional bonds in the credit marketplace. Securitization is double edged: in only a few years, the technique has given an enormous boon to consumers in the form of lower interest rates and fresh infusions of money for mortgages and car loans. Banks have also gained from securitization, observes Lowell Bryan, a director at the McKinsey consulting firm. They have, he says, been able to sell many of their own loans to securitizers and thus free scarce capital for more...
...same time, he called the trade imbalance "unsustainable" and called for Japan to open its markets to foreign goods. Such a development would help lower prices for the Japanese, he said...
...Seattle Mariners fall into this same category. Their uniforms are perfectly old-fashioned, right down to the piping on the collar. The writing on the front of their shirts, however, is too new for them. Yet, instead of wearing caps made out of a lower case "m" based on a trident, they now wear a prominent "S" on their caps. With all of the rumors that the Mariners may move out of the Kingdome, it is probably a good idea to wear an "S." Perhaps the team can move to Saginaw or Spartanburg or Sarasota or St. Cloud to save...