Word: lowered
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...serves as a social center for much of the neighborhood in lower Roxbury, but the life inside the run-down structure is not always apparent to outsiders...
...mission failed almost immediately. Walking into the Adams Lower Common Room, I was immediately struck by the charged atmosphere. As students mingled, making introductions and sampling fondue, the scene reminded me of a diplomatic reception between two warring countries. Manners were reserved, speech carefully considered and few members of either group seemed inclined to fly solo while working the room. Soon the organizers called us to attention and we were instructed to break into small groups to begin discussing assimilation and conformity in our minority communities...
...housing. This way, common citizens would have private property and an incentive to defend it. How do you privatize a Stalinist economy quickly? Well, the Czechs had been doing it for two years with the "voucher" system, devised by Jan Svejnar, a Czech-American economist. Now, Russia has a lower percentage of its GNP in government hands than does Italy...
Nonetheless, in the Clinton years, both the major political and policy legacies of Reagan have been discredited. "Reaganomics," as his economic policy came to be called, of lower taxes, higher defense spending and a devil-may-care attitude toward the bottom line, has been blamed for the huge deficits of the '80s while Clinton's "anti-Reaganomics" has actually worked. It has contributed to both a growing economy and the elimination of the deficit...
John L. Koethe, recently named winner of the 1998 Kingsley-Tufts Award, read selections Tuesday night from his latest book of poetry, Falling Water, in a reading at the Adams House Lower Common Room...