Word: lowered
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...House subcommittee will release a report charging that the Department of Health and Human Services has shied away from funding research on "test-tube fertilization" because of pressure from right-to-life groups. As a consequence, the discovery of new techniques to make the procedure more reliable and lower its cost (currently $6,000 for each attempted fertilization) must depend on uncertain private financing...
...package is part of an attempt to solvea 1990 fiscal year budget deficit now estimated at$825 million. The House earlier this fall passed abill that combined cuts, savings and non-taxrevenues to lower the deficit by about $350million...
...National Front and its allies picked up enough pledges of support from smaller parties yesterday to form a majority in the 543-seat Lok Sabha, the lower house of Parliament, where the power lies...
...same logic applies to rent control in Cambridge. About 40 percent of those in rent-controlled apartments can pay higher rents. Since the property values are lower than market rents, the city collects less in taxes...
...like to drown their morning cornflakes may soon be merely moistening them. Because of a decline in U.S. dairy production, milk prices are jumping over the moon. After churning out a record 146 billion lbs. of milk in 1988, suppliers are producing about 2% less this year. Reasons: lower federal dairy subsidies, a drought-related decline in feed crops and a falling milk-cow population. As a result, some customers are finding milk in short supply. Even the U.S. Agriculture Department is having trouble buying enough to supply Government nutrition programs...