Word: lowered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...welcome to the elderly. About 13% of all people over 65 have urinary incontinence, and twice as many women as men are affected, according to preliminary findings of a Harvard Medical School study. (No similar study exists on loss of bowel control, though estimates suggest the figure is far lower.) Nursing homes spend $8 billion a year to cope with the bladder problem, reports Gerontologist Neil Resnick of Boston's Beth Israel Hospital, "more than is spent on the general population for dialysis and coronary-bypass surgery combined." Many younger people are victims, including children with persistent bed-wetting trouble...
...broad, cutting issues. "If there is a single message voters want to send in 1986," he advised his party, "it is 'Care about me, don't forget about me, and don't sell me out.' " That theme had particularly loud resonance in this year's primaries; with turnout even lower than usual, activists who cared enough to vote gave the results a strongly populist tilt...
Just before the G-5 began its Washington session, West Germany's central bank again refused to lower interest rates. Even so, high-ranking financial sources in Bonn told TIME that their country indeed had plans to cut rates, perhaps in early October...
...OPENING scenes of 'night, Mother, we observe the quiet, orderly, evening rituals of Jessie Cates the night before she kills herself. As the sun sets over a small, lower-middle-class ranch house in rural America, Jessie (Sissy Spacek) gives her full attention to the monotonous, ennerving tasks of refilling the candy dishes in the living room, taking the clean towels out of the clothes dryer, cancelling the daily paper, setting the electric light timer...
...question of proper upbringing. Many people here--having been raised in some kind of hyper-austere, Ingmar Bergmann-style family where even thinking about the lower functions was a mortal sin--find it hard to deal with the decadent freedom of Harvard life. Unsure how to act, they try to behave they way they think everyone else does, and, invariably, they overshoot the mark. The result is otherwise innocuous-looking people leaning over at the dinner table and asking you to "pass the fucking salt...