Word: lowered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...want producers and consumers to understand the benefits of trade: new opportunities, lower prices and better quality," Daley said...
...when the German-born Pfeiffer replaced ousted co-founder Rod Canion in 1991, a year in which price wars and a slumping economy cut Compaq's sales 10%, to $3.2 billion. Pfeiffer applied American management techniques, slashing payrolls and streamlining manufacturing. He used the savings to launch lines of lower-priced PCs. In '96 he led the company into high-margin, big-iron computing, buying Tandem Computer for $3 billion. Tandem's machines process everything from stock trades to credit-card transactions...
...Lipinski's other competitions this season. On several jumps, judges have noted some flaws in her technique that have cost her points. Lipinski's coach, Richard Callaghan, believes his skater is being scrutinized more carefully because she is the current world champion. Lipinski admits to being "puzzled" by her lower technical scores, but in public, at least, she doesn't let it bother her. "I have a lot of confidence in my skating this year," she says. "So when I go out there [on the ice], I put everything that's on the outside away, and I think about...
...Privatization pushers say that even the poor will be better off under a private system. Opponents like the AFLCIO say a private system would not only leave low-wage workers unprotected, but would violate a basic principle of the welfare state, releasing the wealthy from any obligation help support lower-wage workers...
...would be unable to basically freeze or lower our mandatory costs without legislative support," Scanlan said...