Word: lowered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...barons fretted about falling prices last week, they suffered new pain from an old wound. The U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal of a lower- court decision requiring Exxon, the largest U.S. oil company, to make a $2.1 billion refund for overcharges to customers. Since it would be impossible to track down all the wronged customers, the money will be given to state governments for such projects as insulating public buildings and helping the poor with utility bills...
...J.P.L. experts interpret the tape as showing a bright sphere of flame appearing well above one of the boosters' lower skirts. It is on the interior side, facing the external tank and pointing away from the orbiter. A fraction of a second later, the sphere of flame becomes a cone-shaped jet of fire. The pointed end of the cone emerges from the booster, and its rounded end seems to aim at the fuel tank, apparently burning a hole in its side. The next thing to be seen is the huge fireball, engulfing everything...
...would cost $40,000. Even an LDL-pheresis enthusiast like Chazov agrees that it is not "a means of mass treatment for atherosclerosis." For that, he says, one must turn not to miraculous medical intervention, but to good, old-fashioned prevention, however boring: "We must talk about diets with lower cholesterol, exercise, control of blood pressure, and antismoking campaigns...
...discounting the South Koreans. In the past few years, several Korean companies, including Samsung, Goldstar and Daewoo, have successfully invaded America with television sets, videocassette recorders and even personal computers. Because wages are generally lower in South Korea than they are in either the U.S. or Japan, Korean products often sell for 25% less than their competition's. By offering attractive items at very low prices, the South Koreans may become the new Japanese. Says one Tokyo businessman: "Sometimes we see our spitting image in the Koreans, and we're downright afraid...
...Sweeney, 32. Rather than stop exercising, he sank $40,000 into the unfinished basement of his Rockville, Md., home. Dubbed Sweeney's Cave, it is now paneled in pale birch, carpeted in light blue and crammed with gym equipment. Among its features: a bench press, an arm-curling machine, lower-back- and leg-strengthening devices and a chest builder. Sweeney, who is the owner of an auto-painting and body shop, boasts, "Nobody has a gym like mine...