Word: lowered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Unfortunately, the vast majority of people who are missed by the census are at the lower income level. For that reason, the Republican party was upset at the idea of statistical sampling. Census takers believed that this new method would compensate for those missed, and since that part of the county tends to be mostly Democratic, the Republican party felt they would lose seats if districts were redrawn. However, also included in the people missed in the Census are the rural poor, who usually tend to vote Republican, and so most people believe that few drastic changes will be necessary...
...data showed a lower median concentration of DDE (4.71 parts per billion) and PCB (4.49 parts per billion) in the serum of cancer patients than in the controls (5.35 and 4.68 parts per billion respectively...
...last week something gave. Led by Hong Kong, stocks in Asia careened lower, and the U.S. market decided to join the act. The Dow Jones industrial average skidded 319 points Thursday and Friday. Without warning, U.S. investors collectively asserted that problems in Asia are tolerable up to a point--but maybe that point has been reached. If so, any further carnage in Asia's tigers, or a spillover to Japan and China, could lay waste our roaring bull market...
...point not lost on delegates attending a pre-Kyoto planning conference last week in Bonn. "Disappointing and insufficient," is how Cornelia Quennet-Thielen, head of the German delegation, characterized Clinton's proposals. And the European Union issued a statement saying in part, "The U.S. proposal is for an even lower target than that proposed by Japan, which we already considered inadequate to tackle the problem of climate change...
Sharon Smith's Reverence, with Kissel's delicate and sweet rendering of melody, illustrated just how surmountable these limits are. Keiko Abe's Memories of the Seashore provides another example, a fittingly nostalgic melody in the lower register performed with great sensitivity to contour and phrasing. Kissel's treatment of dynamics, here and elsewhere, added much to the emotive character of these works...