Word: lowered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lower interest rates, and the faster growth they bring, will be a welcome tonic for the U.S. economy. Last week the Labor Department announced that unemployment jumped in February from 6.7% to 7.3%. Most of the increase, however, occurred in three states: California, Texas and Illinois. California's farm economy was disrupted by recent floods, Texas' oil business was decimated by falling petroleum prices, and Illinois lost many manufacturing jobs...
...cultural community, meanwhile, warned that La Cinq's predominantly foreign-made fare would lower standards and squeeze out indigenous programming. French filmmakers were upset that movies shown on La Cinq would be interrupted by commercials (ads on government channels are bunched at the beginning and end of programs). "I find it disgraceful," said Director Bertrand Tavernier (A Sunday in the Country), "that a government which was supported by creative people is in the process of stabbing them in the back...
Regular exercise, the researchers found, is a critical factor in determining longevity. Men who walked nine or more miles a week (burning off at least 900 calories), for example, had a risk of death 21% lower than those who walked less than three miles a week. The optimum expenditure of energy seems to be about 3,500 calories a week, the equivalent of six to eight hours of strenuous bicycling or singles tennis. The Harvard men who worked out that much had half the risk of death of those who did little or no exercise. Moreover, the study showed that...
...patrician Giscard, 60, has maintained a lower profile throughout the campaign. Last week was no exception, as he spent four days tromping through his native Auvergne region in central France, in addition to his time on the hustings in the north. At every stop he stressed that France needed strong and unified leadership from the right...
...never tired of describing the circumstances of his birth--in a tenement on New York City's Lower East Side--as "the urban equivalent of being born in a log cabin." Like many other second-generation Americans, Jacob Koppel Javits was impelled by his humble origins into a life of public service that carried him from his ghetto "log cabin" to the halls of legislative power. Few made the journey with more confidence and gusto, and fewer still left behind a legacy of greater political achievement. When he died last week at 81, of complications from a degenerative nerve...