Word: lowered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...really do pose a threat to the public, then Canadian consumers should have long ago begun chaffing under the weight of this market structure. But they haven't. The reason is simple: the Canadian banking system is just better than that of the U.S. For example, service charges are lower in Canada than in the U.S. As a result, Canadian banks are forced to rely much more heavily on net interest income as a source of profits...
...business--be it manufacturing or services--size can bring many good things: clout, easier access to capital, lower costs. Those are what allow a company to keep prices down, provide better service, win business and keep profits up--the favored recipe for large-scale corporate survival in the global, capitalist '90s and a prime driver of the record $919 billion in mergers last year. By comparison, the 1980s (when the press screamed about "merger mania") were strictly peewee league. The biggest single year of deals in the greed decade was 1988, with $353 billion...
...more like estrogen itself in other parts of the body. That's why the scientists were on the lookout for uterine cancer and effects on the circulatory system. And while such problems did show up, so did the hoped-for protection. Women who took the tamoxifen had a 45% lower incidence of breast malignancies than those who took placebos. Results were so dramatic that the scientists stopped the study and gave the placebo group a chance to consult with their doctors about switching to the genuine medication...
...Free Bob children's hour. "There's no difference between microradio and the printing presses of the Founding Fathers that were outlawed by the British government," says "Brad," 27, a bike messenger who reads his poetry on Steal This Radio, a 20-watt station on New York City's Lower East Side...
FOLATE FOR ALL A new recommendation for women of childbearing age: take a daily supplement of 400 micro-grams of folic acid, a B vitamin, to prevent birth defects. A separate study finds that eating cereal fortified with 400 mcg of folic acid can lower a man's blood levels of homocysteine, an amino acid linked to heart disease...