Word: lowered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Army, which had a predominantly young team last year, hopes its experience in the lower bracket of the 1987-88 ECAC standings will propel it into this year's playoffs...
...district that includes the freshmen Yard dorms had a slightly lower margin of victory for Dukakis--just under 80 percent of Ward 8, Precinct 2 went for the Democratic candidate. The freshmen voters made up about 80 percent of the precinct...
Teeter said he believed the number of voterswho were wavering was much lower, "somewhat under10 percent...
This is a law protecting the workers. If it did not exist, construction companies could submit lower bids on projects by cutting their employees' wages. Construction costs, except for labor, are fixed, so the only way to cut overall costs is to pay lower wages. Repealing the law would create larger profits for contractors but cut the earnings of their employees. It is the public works equivalent to cutting the minimum wage requirement, a return to days when labor had no government protection against abuse from self-interested employers...
...have had a vertical uterine incision, which is now used in less than 1% of all caesareans, risk tearing along the scar. Their advice: better to have another C-section. But the vast majority of those who have undergone C-sections have had the preferred horizontal incision across the lower abdomen, or "bikini cut," and for them last week's announcement may finally break the old saw against vaginal delivery the second time around, and even the third...