Word: lowered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...openness is the result of some regrettable changes in sexual practices. In the good old days, we may have spoken more eliptically about the birds and the bees, but children were experimenting with sex less than they are now and divorce and teen-age pregnancy rates were similarly lower...
...kind of automobile is on the way. Several major auto manufacturers are designing hybrid electric cars that have twice the fuel economy and half the carbon-dioxide emissions of today's vehicles. The sticker price is admittedly a few thousand dollars higher but is largely offset by lower fuel bills. Toyota plans to bring the first such car to the market in Japan this week, and other carmakers will soon follow suit (see following story...
...rule that a viable fetus could be considered "a person" under child-abuse laws and that a pregnant woman carrying it could be charged with doing harm, even with murder. Similar arguments were earlier rejected by five other state supreme courts and a handful of lower courts across the country, but that did not deter Condon, a Republican rising star whose career has been stoked by such battles. Says he: "This decision is much more in line with American culture. A fetus has inalienable rights that come from God. That is how most Americans feel about this...
...have yet to see what the Barnes & Noble takeover will do to the prices of textbooks. But the Coop must have lower textbook prices in order to accommodate students. We will be watching you, Coop. Support students like the supposed cooperative you are and keep the textbook prices...
Miller adds that HDS has a program with the culinary school in which dining hall chefs are taught to cook lower fat meals...