Word: lowered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Cambridge has historically been open to people of all incomes and backgrounds," said Duehay. "We have always been an immigrant city, and now we have to try to prevent people from lower to middle-class backgrounds from being squeezed...
...method of providing affordable housing is through a citizen-generated down-zoning proposal that would tighten restrictions on the height of new buildings, said Davis. Many liberal councillors have warned against the "gentrification" of the city and of the forcing out of lower-income Cantabrigians by more affluent residents...
What he meant was that balancing the budget doesn't require nearly so much pain when times are as good as they are now. How good? The budget deficit is expected to drop to $67 billion this year, 40% lower than the CBO had predicted. When negotiators found out that the shrinking deficit would give them an extra $225 billion to play with, the final knots in the deal dissolved. Christmas in May. Sometimes the mixture of money and politics is not so bad after...
...surrounded by the forces of the mightiest nation on earth, the ambassador decided to abandon his ramshackle redoubt deep in a lower ventricle of Texas. He had sent out a "Mayday" on shortwave radio, calling on "any nation in the world" for assistance. "We have hostiles in the woods," he cried. "We are being invaded!" But no one came to his aid, and his supporters were beginning to trickle away. Even the ambassador's wife had decided to leave the combination lean-to and trailer that was designated the "embassy compound." Thus, shortly after 4 p.m. on Saturday, with barely...
...changes, while Section 2 prohibits any voting practice that dilutes minority voting strength. A Louisiana court had rejected linking of the two sections as a way to disqualify the board's plan, saying they were never intended to be considered jointly. Although the Supreme Court agreed with the lower court's interpretation, justices sent the case back for restudy because they could not determine if all the evidence in the case had been reviewed...