Word: lowered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even if the non-tenured Faculty are included, 1997 figures on the number of black professors, male and female, show Harvard rounding at the bottom of the Ivy League with Princeton, meaning that it has lower figures than all but four of the U.S. News and World Reports' top 25 universities, including every Ivy institution except Princeton...
...pass the accountants, they yell to you, "Not good enough!" Fallen veterans on the field wave fingers of "I told you so," and your own confidence slackens. Your quadriceps begin that low burning feeling and then you notice that your comrades are not so cohesive as before. You lower your head and try to power through the back-stretch. You refuse to become a sidelined sucker. You know you can run this race. But you can't. Midway through the straightaway, you hit the wall...
...figures show that 78% of Americans are not worried about their job security. "There is not a lot of euphoria out there," says Tom Smith of the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago, whose survey finds that job satisfaction, financial satisfaction and overall happiness are all lower now than the average for the past 20 years...
...unclear how much the New Jersey agreement will change adoption law elsewhere. In fact, there's a chance that the New Jersey case could do for adoption policy what a Hawaii case did for marriage: ignite a national backlash. Lower-court decisions in Hawaii allowing same-sex marriages led other states and eventually Congress to pass the bills outlawing them. (The Hawaii Supreme Court will probably rule on the issue soon, but next year Hawaii's voters will have a chance to amend their constitution to ban same-sex marriages.) The New Jersey case, says Arne Owens, a spokesman...
...tough love came as the U.N. General Assembly meekly offered a biannual budget that, at $2.532 billion, is even lower than Republicans in Congress had demanded. Meanwhile, Jesse Helms is no closer to allowing payment of a cent of the $1.3 billion U.S. arrears. No wonder the Europeans got upset. This is what was known in the 1960s as "delinquent diplomacy." Back then it was much frowned on by Washington, who publicly lambasted the Soviets for practicing it. It's ironic they should now receive the same scolding themselves. How the mighty have fallen ? into debt...