Word: lowered
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...staff erroneously includes a call for a lower federal drinking age in an otherwise acceptable appeal for a realistic College drinking policy. Encouraging universities to tolerate safe, small-scale drinking even when students under 21 may participate is reasonable. But calling for a reduction of the drinking age to 18 is irresponsible. There are strong social pressures on those in the 18 to 21 age range to drink; the law is one of few countervailing forces, encouraging young adults to think twice before using alcohol in these formative years...
...professor at the University of Michigan. The documents, which Cohen obtained by filing a Freedom of Information Act request, contain the top-secret charts and grids the university uses in selecting its incoming class. With their frequent references to the race of applicants, and apparent use of different and lower selection criteria for minority applicants, Cohen's materials are the kind of evidence that make a conservative litigator's pulse race. "All you really need for a lawsuit is contained in these pieces of paper," says Terry Pell, a lawyer with the Washington-based Center for Individual Rights, which litigates...
...least not about California. The UC task force's no-SAT plan has little chance of becoming policy: it is widely opposed, not only by Republican Governor Pete Wilson but also by the moderate Los Angeles Times and San Francisco Examiner. They all contend that the proposal could lower standards...
Charles Clough, chief investment strategist at Merrill Lynch, is looking for 1% to 2% annual growth for the U.S. in the next few years, about a third lower than his more optimistic peers. He places only marginal emphasis on the hit U.S. companies and the domestic economy will take directly from the depressed levels of business activity in struggling Asia...
...formal summit meeting was held in the Cabinet Room, crammed with aides. Clinton said the U.S. favored a leadership role for China in every international organization and therefore backed Chinese entry into the new World Trade Organization as soon as possible, but the country will have to lower its trade barriers before that happens. The Americans took pains to deny Beijing's standard propaganda charge that the U.S. is determined to prevent China from gaining great-power status. Vice President Al Gore spoke on energy and the environment, but he also said, "There is nothing in the U.S. position...