Word: lowered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Both stores cater to ice cream lovers, carrying popular gourmet brands like Ben and Jerry's, Haagen Dazs, and Steve's. Although Christy's carries seven brands to Store 24's six, Store 24's prices were on average 10 cents lower...
...airports, the TCA, often described as an upside-down wedding cake, is a restricted area; planes must receive permission from an air controller to enter it. The unusually complex Los Angeles TCA has a uniform ceiling of 7,000 ft., but its twelve sectors have varying floors that grow lower as planes get closer to LAX. The Torrance airport lies under this TCA, at a point where the floor...
...other side of the world, along the spine of the Andes in Bolivia, Peru, Colombia and Ecuador, both the lower and middle classes have begun smoking coca paste, a potent and addictive form of cocaine that costs only pennies a cigarette. "These countries have never had a problem like this before," says Manuel Gallardo, chief of the Department of State's Bureau of International Narcotics Matters. "Their people are getting strung out right and left from all social classes, and the governments don't know what to do." Drug dealers are so high-handed in Colombia that last week they...
Informed of this opinion, Geller raises his eyebrows. He continues to sit in the dark, an attending slave to the station or the music, it isn't clear which. His arms are folded across his chest, his shock of gray hair stands up off his scalp, his lower lip is rolled out. "So?" he asks finally. Another long pause. "Does it mean he wants me to drop dead...
...must now rebuild a crippled opposition. The Socialists suffered a major setback in July, when Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone's ruling Liberal Democrats won a historic 59% of the seats in the lower house of the Diet. For his part, Nakasone seemed to relish the prospect of facing a female Socialist leader. Said he: "I am a feminist, so I would treat her very nicely...