Word: lowered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...various forms. Some speak of a higher truth: These may not be actual events but, the cause being politically correct, no matter. They are symbolically true. Says Professor Allen Carey-Webb: "We have a higher standard of truth for poor people like Rigoberta Menchu." By which he means a lower standard...
Fifty is also a good age to have a sigmoidoscopy, in which a doctor inserts a flexible tube into the lower third of the colon to look for polyps or tumors. If the lining is clear, you won't have to undergo the procedure again for five years...
Later, several students said they are concerned that lower-paid SSI guards won't have the incentive to protect them...
...money is beer money. And you're sharing library books with the big kids. Face another harsh reality: Everybody at this school, being so smart and all, can, believe it or not, recognize your handwriting. Which means that when they check out that book on Mating Habits of the Lower Primates, they read every insipid thing you scrawled, and they still snicker every time they pass by in the yard. You've become something of a school-wide joke; you're the fool who scribbled "symbolism," "why?" and "interesting" on every page of To Kill a Mockingbird. Take...
...sleeping" is seen as a way to develop better parent-child bonding and as a way to make breast-feeding easier and more comfortable. James McKenna, a Notre Dame professor familiar with baby-parent sleeping patterns, hints that babies who sleep with their parents may be at a lower risk for SIDS. McKenna told the Associated Press that even in the deepest stages of sleep, mothers respond within seconds to their baby?s slightest noises. In his studies, he says, the only time parents have been unresponsive is when they are desensitized by drugs, alcohol or some other means...