Word: lowered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...there were style points for football, Harvard (3-2, 1-1 Ivy) would have gotten a 10 out of 10 based on the first half, even from the always-stingy East German judge. The second half was far lower in technical and artistic merit--about a zero on both scales...
Mattison one-timed the pass into the lower left-hand corner of the goal from about five yards out past a sprawling Miami keeper who had no chance on the play...
...patrons are furious over the government's plan to lower France's legal workweek to 35 hrs. from 39. From a central stage lighted up like a boxing ring, speaker after speaker denounced the legislation as "retrograde," "idiotic" and "criminal." "This law is antieconomic," thundered Ernest-Andre Seilliere, head of the main employers association. "Nobody can make more by working less!" Truer to form, the Confederation Generale du Travail, one of the country's largest labor unions, was leading tens of thousands of workers in protest marches across the country, demanding that the law even mandate the hiring...
...been unable to substantially lower the country's alarming unemployment rate, which is currently 11.3%. His Labor Minister, Martine Aubry, has argued that a shorter workweek would oblige companies to hire more people, thus dividing the employment pie into more slices...
...full 77 percent of undergraduates at four-year colleges and universities have credit cards, according to data compiled by Consolidated Credit Counseling Services, Inc. (CCCS), a company that helps students with serious debt by securing them lower interest rates, along with credit counseling...