Word: lowered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...overstates the degree of distress because a large number of those listed as out of work are people who are voluntarily moving from one job to another. According to this line of reasoning, 5.6% unemployment is actually close to "full employment," and any attempt to push the rate much lower will cause inflation to accelerate. Other analysts say the unemployment rate understates the problem because it does not include the so-called discouraged workers, who have given up looking...
...sexual revolution might be said to have begun when Joyce's Molly Bloom spilled out all her private thoughts in 36 pages of unbridled, almost unperioded and officially censored prose; and another rebellion was surely marked when E.E. Cummings first felt free to commit "God" to the lower case...
What they "see" is astounding. Far from being just a featureless sphere of molten iron, the core has a surface that is apparently studded with mountains and riddled with depressions that may be filled with lower-density fluid that forms the equivalent of oceans. There may even be a bizarre kind of rain: showers of iron particles that sprinkle down on the core. And all of this takes place in a region whose temperature is perhaps as hot as the surface...
...move that troubled many students last March, the student-faculty Standing Committee on Athletics (SCA) recommended the University set quotas on the number of student athletes who could live in each house. The upper and lower limits suggested by the SCA for varsity and junior varsity athletes were 9 and 27 percent respectively...
According to the Office of Human Resources, 50 percent of the Harvard administration--including both senior posts and middle managers--is female. Yet, critics of the University charge that most women in the administration work at the bottom levels, as secretaries and lower-rung supervisors...