Word: lowered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most citizens of the Santiago I visited had never been to the other part of the city, the barrios. The government tells them, and it is probably true, that it is dangerous for them to cross the line from the upper to the lower part of town. It is dangerous because the people of the barrios are desperate...
...social stratification in Santiago is reminiscent of apartheid in South Africa. The upper city of neat shops and bright ads is predominantly populated with people of European descent, the lower city with a more indigenous population. The boundaries are not enforced by any legal code, but their effect is just as pronounced...
Cheap oil is of course a boon for the U.S., Western Europe, Japan, Brazil and other heavy consumers. Lower energy costs can boost economic growth, reduce interest rates and inflation, and create more jobs. Unemployment in the U.S., for example, is declining significantly. The Labor Department reported last week that the jobless rate fell from 6.9% in December to 6.7% last month...
...hand booster just before a huge fireball engulfed the entire space vehicle. Although NASA's acting administrator, William Graham, said the flame's location had not been pinpointed, it appeared to be about 36 ft. above the bottom of the rocket's nozzle, near an attachment ring where the lower part of the booster was connected to the external liquid-fuel tank. This ring, in turn, was just above one of the three special joints coupling the rocket's stacked solid-fuel segments. Externally, 177 high-strength steel pins held these joints together. Internally the joints were sealed with...
...still taking a bead on what lies ahead. Just as Lyndon Johnson and the Democratic Congresses of the 1960s and '70s sought to stretch the upper limits of America's willingness to pay for an expanded Government role in the nation's domestic life, Reagan seeks to test the lower limits of that willingness. By tilting gain at the ramparts of Big Government as he has done so often in the past, he hopes to make his mark indelibly on the future...