Word: lowered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...feels about a soft-money ban, calling it "one of the tragedies of our time" that such a bill "is allowed to be advanced as reform." McConnell equates unlimited campaign money with free speech, and his solution to the ongoing sale of U.S. politicians is to raise prices, not lower them. With McConnell waiting to pounce with his own version of the Mr. Smith myth, McCain and Feingold need 60 votes to pass their bill, and they remain about eight Republicans short...
...laughing aside, Glasgow says he is almost relieved only to have $1,000 debt to pay off, a figure dramatically lower than the several thousands he owed not long...
...around long enough to gain familiarity with students and their buildings? While most Harvard guards had been on the force for 10 years or more, only three of the SSI guards on the Longwood campus could claim that length of tenure. In fact, outsourcing encourages mobility. Because of the lower pay and smaller benefits, fewer guards see the job as a long-term occupation...
These questions of wage equity, experience and familiarity worry us. The efficient management and lower costs may balance out our lack of attachment to the new guards. We hope that SSI will make an effort to keep the same guards in the same houses year after year so that they can gain the same kind of mastery of their surroundings as the Harvard guards had. And even if the SSI guards don't stay for long, we hope that they become familiar with our faces, and maybe learn a couple of our names...
...team's improvement over last year goes beyond lower scores and higher tournament finishes...