Word: lowered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...represents the lower-class, largely Black citizens who see the drug problem arising from economics. The other speaks for the wealthy, largely white portion of the country whose safety is threatened by drugs and drug-related crime. But such distinctions are usuallly glossed over when the drug problem is put up for discussion. Just the other day, two prominent experts on the drug epidemic appeared on a local television show and concurred that drug use was not a political problem, but rather a "people problem...
Poor Neil Kinnock. Sinking ever lower in the polls, the leader of Britain's Labor Party embarked on an eleven-day goodwill tour of southern Africa designed to lift his ratings. En route from Mozambique to Zimbabwe last week, Kinnock and his entourage landed by mistake at a tiny military airstrip near the Mozambican border. Instead of a welcoming party, the plane was met by Zimbabwean soldiers, armed with Soviet-made AK-47 automatic rifles, who herded Kinnock's 15-member group into a whitewashed...
...with much of the action flashing on television screens around the world. Although the violence has been largely limited to the West Bank and Gaza, many potential tourists see a country clouded by tear gas and moral ambiguities and are choosing to stay away. Tourism since April is 24% lower than in the same quarter last year. Hundreds of charter flights have been scrubbed and the Nabucco extravaganza canceled; hotels stand half empty. If the trend continues, Israel could lose $300 million this year of the $1.5 billion it earns from tourism...
Though discouraging enough, the USDA report may understate the problem. "The commercial surveys will doubtless be bolder, and lower, than those of USDA," says Conrad Leslie, one of the nation's leading private crop forecasters. Leslie predicts a corn crop of 4.4 billion bu., 800 million bu. less than the USDA estimate. A survey by the National Corn Growers Association is even more pessimistic, predicting that this year's corn yields will be down as much as 42% from last year's. The USDA estimates assume normal weather for the rest of the growing season, even though most long-range...
...object in their bodies after surgery. Instead of having only three years after surgery to bring such a suit, Lipsig's victory allowed patients three years from the time they could reasonably have discovered the problem. And just last week the state's top court affirmed a $1.25 million lower-court judgment that Lipsig had won for a high school football player who was injured on the field. Lipsig had persuaded the jury that in view of the boy's exhaustion before he went on the field against much larger opponents, the coach should have kept him on the bench...