Word: lowered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even in a strange pool with a big enemy crowd--over 500 people were at the meet--the Crimson handled the pressure. Harvard won 11 of the 16 events and never finished lower than second place in any race. In addition, the aquawomen broke or tied five school records and three Dillon Pool records...
...calling for less sympathy but for more realism, which is too often misinterpreted as an apology for social injustice. It is easy to forget that most of the world does not come anywhere near the standard of living of even the lower levels of American society. For the people whom Laurie Grossman observed, American is truly a land of opportunity, a better place to live that the country they left behind. My guess is that they appreciate our country more than she does...
...will we know that some groups of heterosexual people are at "high risk" of developing AIDS? Currently most heterosexually infected people attribute their infection to contact with intravenous drug users or bisexual men. If the time comes when most new heterosexual cases are contracted from other members of the "lower risk" population, we'll know that the epidemic has become established in that population and no longer needs to be imported...
...other part is about the listening audience. Here Allen finds cross section enough in a single source, an extended lower-middle-class Jewish family in Rockaway, Queens. Among these dreamers by the glowing dial, the most touching and memorable is again a woman, Aunt Bea (played with becoming lack of sentiment by Dianne Wiest). Since this nameless clan lives near Allen's old neighborhood and includes a shy, slender, red-haired boy, the unwary may conclude that Allen is being autobiographical...
...looks 50, and his gaunt face carries discolored scars from the falls and fights of three years on the streets. An upper incisor is missing, and his lower teeth jut outward against his lower lip, giving the impression that he can't close his mouth. His baggy pants are about five inches too long and when he walks, their frayed ends drag on the ground. "You know something?" he asks, holding up the bottle. "I wasn't stuck to this stuff until the cold got to me. Now I'll freeze without it. I could go to Florida or someplace...