Word: lowered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Everyone I spoke with had a Mexican maid and gardner. Most people dealt with Mexicans only in their capacity as hired hands. And so the Mexicans on the street were regarded as a subservient lower class...
...huddling near the casino's closed door, apparently unable to pry it open, died of smoke inhalation. Others farther inside perished immediately; rescue workers found their charred corpses sitting upright in chairs around the blackjack tables. The terror did not end on the mezzanine. Smoke poured out of the lower floors and wrapped the 22-story building in a dense cloak. On the twelfth floor, Nancy Brensson, 12, of Cresskill, N.J., was watching a rerun of The Carol Burnett Show while her mother was taking a shower. "Suddenly the room went dark," she said. "I looked out and saw this...
...number of states the reform will actually produce a decline in personal tax revenues. In some cases that will happen because state tax rates are based on the lower amount of U.S. income taxes that people will pay under tax reform, rather than on taxable income. States with the biggest potential tax declines include Rhode Island (-1%), North Dakota (-10%) and Nebraska...
...expanding number of pilots is exacting a price at some airlines, especially the feeders, which are requiring less experience and lower qualifications than they did in the past. Newcomers are being promoted from the flight engineer's chair to the right-hand seat (the first officer's) and then to the left seat (the captain's) after logging fewer flying hours. "The , apprenticeship system doesn't exist anymore," claims ALPA's Duffy. Three major airlines -- United, American and Piedmont -- are for the first time hiring pilots who are past...
Could it be true? Ronald Reagan, who in 1980 promised to abolish the Department of Education as a waste of our tax dollars, doing something to encourage the middle and lower classes to attend college? Education Secretary William J. Bennett, who said he'd rather give his son seed money to start a business than tuition to go to Harvard, proposing to spend money so that elite schools will not soon only be educating elite students...