Word: lowered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time to rationalize our policy on tobacco in this country. If we want people to stop smoking, we should not lower cigarette prices. If we want farmers to stop growing tobacco, we should not subsidize them...
...said for liberals--they may be in no way equipped for governing the world, but they are admirable in specific cases of injustice." And he makes such homilies seem the genuine beliefs, born of experience, of his characters. Keneally is equally at home, if less exciting, in lower-middle-class urban Australia and the locker rooms of also-ran athletes. These characters ring true, but they are not especially interesting. That, however, seems to be part of his strategy. The grayness of this humdrum world only makes the clashing colors of the Kabbelskis' lives more compelling. Keneally's real triumph...
...doomed, and a semblance of order returned to the bond market. Even so, interest rates were higher than many municipalities had expected. Milwaukee County called for bids on $17,450,000 in tax-exempt bonds, hoping to pay interest of no more than 6.71%. Instead, investors would go no lower than...
...about chang-Aaagh!" He leaps a good foot as the door flies open and in leaps the Antichrist, a.k.a. Littleface. The latter name comes from the fact that his face occupies only the lower fifth of his head; the former comes from his personality. "Oh, h-hi, Peter," says Ned, the section leader...
...real estate, foreign bank accounts and other hidden wealth allegedly controlled by Marcos and his family. Jovito Salonga, 65, head of Aquino's Presidential Commission on Good Government, which has been charged with recouping the fortune, estimated Marcos' assets at between $5 billion and $10 billion. Even the lower figure greatly exceeds the Philippines' 1985 government budget of $3.1 billion. During his tenure as President, Marcos received an annual salary...