Word: lowered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mother, knowing that her son wants to speak with her, then makes the call on her lower rates...
...with all of Fischli and Weiss' work, we find it impossible to untangle earnest expression and social critique. At first, we might be tempted to read the series as an indictment of contemporary society's leveling impulse to elevate the banal and lower the profound. Yet, the objects are far too funny, evocative, and lovingly-crafted to be taken simply as cynical criticism. Besides, by jumbling the mundane and the sublime, the artists make it impossible to tell which is which...
...Japan's markets, meanwhile, blew hot and cold in Thursday's trading. The Nikkei 225 index bumped up 85.82 points, or 0.5 percent, recovering after Wednesday's 52.05-point drop. But losers outnumbered winners 4 to 1, and other major market indexes closed lower...
Another factor may have contributed to lower turnouts...
...ones available for the richer section of our society. While the parents of a five-year-old white child might be reading books to their children before they go to sleep, the parents of a black or Hispanic child might be working to support their children. The lower classes of the American society have a lot of hurdles to overcome if they are to succeed in moving up the economic ladder...