Word: lowered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Aranya explained that while her store has been busy lately, she could attract more customers if the crime rate were lower...
Following Rothschild's comments, Dr. Linda Peeno, former medical director for an HMO recounted how, day after day, she denied patients access to coverage because it would bring lower profits to her employer...
Receiving less money for their grapes, the employers will either cut down on employment, leaving already destitute grape pickers unemployed, or will lower the quality of life for the grape pickers even more. The only party that stands to profit from the boycott is the United Farm workers Union, and the union benefits at the cost of all non-unionized workers. By claiming that supporting the boycott somehow upholds human rights, the dean's office makes the implicit statement that only unionized grape pickers have human rights, a statement that ought to be rejected by all thinking human beings...
...with an appealing self-assurance. The 27-year-old actor's gambling strategy was to raise, raise, raise--an approach that suited a wealthy young man whose annual salary just went north of $1 million, but whose cards weren't what you'd call a sure thing. Long after lower-paid mortals folded, Damon continued to bet like a winner; he'd arrived at the table with $200 and left only $20 poorer, which of course did nothing to deter the amiable grin that rarely leaves his soon-to-be-familiar face...
Damon is pleased but bewildered by the power at his disposal. "It's like I'm living somebody else's life," he had said as we wandered aimlessly and unrecognized around lower Manhattan a few days before the card game and a week before his face landed on the cover of Vanity Fair. "I don't have an apartment; my stuff is in a warehouse in New Jersey. I'm making three movies in a row for all this money... I'm not complaining, you know. But I mean, why is it all happening to me? And if people...