Word: lowered
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...study cited by Colborn, researchers found that by the age of four, children whose mothers consumed two to three servings of fish from Lake Michigan each month had poorer short-term memory, lower cognitive processing speed, auditory and verbal deficits and quantitative memory deficits...
...appreciate the lower increase given that the total costs for the school year are increasing. And the Administration has done a wonderful job of retaining its need-blind admissions policy in the face of growing costs and cutbacks...
Undergraduates also can appreciate the 4.1 percent increase in tuition, room and board since this percentage is lower than the increase at all the Harvard graduate schools. In fact, the Law School, the School of Public Health and the School of Education all have cost increases of 5.5 percent...
...Endangered Species Act to file lawsuits accusing the federal government of doing too much to protect some species. The ruling is sure to affect the hundreds of ongoing environmental disputes nationwide. It came as a defeat for the Clinton administration, which until now had been successful in lower court decisions seeking a "one-way" interpretation of the law, in which only environmentalists could use the act to sue for greater protection of wildlife. Justice Antonin Scalia wrote in the court opinion that the Endangered Species Act's citizen-suit provision should allow people to sue the government for overprotection...
...closing gaps in educational opportunity," he says. Sensitive to that charge, Clinton at the last minute tacked on a substantial increase in Pell grants, which pay college costs for some 3.7 million of America's neediest students. But critics are worried too that getting more people into college will lower education standards at public institutions, which spend more on each student than they collect in tuition and don't have big endowments to fall back on. Already in Georgia total state spending on colleges is up, while spending per student is down...