Word: lowered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Engineers are riding high from a surprising second-place finish in the lower bracket at Annapolis...
Their decision two years ago to lower admission standards for football players, made in an effort to revamp the Columbia football program, was a bad risk...
...tremors, irritability and lethargy -- that may belie the seriousness of the harm done. These symptoms may disappear in a week or more, but the underlying damage remains. While the long-term effects of crack are unknown, Stanford's Fulroth points out that children born with small heads often have lower than normal I.Q. levels by ages three...
...performance in the 100 meters that caused the real sensation at the trials. In the blistering sun (the track heated up to 115 degrees), Griffith Joyner atomized Evelyn Ashford's 1984 world record. Track aficionados found it hard to believe that this relative novice at 100 meters could lower the mark to 10.49 sec., a time that womankind was not supposed to reach until the next century...
...Atlanta, joking that his wife had fallen asleep while reading the text. Bush's own acceptance speech was peppered with such put-downs as "I'll try to be fair to the other side; I'll try to hold my charisma in check." The aim is both to lower expectations and defuse the critics with humor. But does anybody want Rodney Dangerfield for President...