Word: lowered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reason I liked it so much is that I tried to get as much food as I could before lunch so that during lunch I could have the animal trainers come and lock me in my trailer with the monkeys. The trailer is very small - this is a lower budget film - so the chimps would just run around off the walls. It was really, really fun; my trailer became a monkey-tossing petting zoo. I'd much rather be hanging out with chimps than being here right...
...girls sit on the lower level of the Pit's granite bleachers. They rest their elbows on the bags on their laps. Beth lights a cigarette. A big black guy called Gerbil bends over from an upper bench, brandishes his plastic...
...changing demographic of Cambridge has two aspects. On the one hand, the elimination of rent control has forced low-income families out of Cambridge. The result is that the bilingual program's enrollment is significantly lower than it once was. In the 1970s, the number of students enrolled was around 300; today that number hovers around 180. On top of the reduced enrollment, the teachers face a wider variety of nationalities in the classroom. When the program first began, the student were mostly Greek, Portugese, Hispanic or Haitian. Today, there are greater instances of "low-incidence languages," with students from...
Wolff also spoke, for about 20 minutes, about increasing stipends for graduate students because they are sometimes lower than the cost of living in Cambridge...
Sixty-five percent of families living in areas with a high incidence of breast cancer hired people to maintain their lawns, versus only 36 percent in the lower-risk areas. Dry cleaning services were used at least once a month by 45 percent of families in the high-risk areas, as opposed to 32 percent in the lower-risk neighborhoods...