Word: lowered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lower medical costs by discouraging expensive tests, procedures and operations...
...lower the income of some surgical specialists while raising the pay of physicians who provide general care to patients...
...spun off some 30 tornadoes twisting around coastal Texas. High winds and battering rain were expected as far north as Chicago. Gilbert, according to Mark Zimmer of the National Hurricane Center, will turn into a "huge rainmaking machine" that will bring water to parched areas extending to the lower Ohio River Valley...
Instead of admitting the inevitable (i.e. "We cannot compete at the level we are now competing at and expect to win"), Columbia decided to lower its admissions standards for football players. This measure was approved by the Ivy Group, a body that represents Ivy League schools...
...frightening possibility. What if Columbia's admissions policy has little, even no, effect on the fortunes of the football squad? Should Columbia continue losing two years from now, when its entire team will be composed of players admitted under the new policy, what then would the Columbia administration do? Lower academic standards further...