Word: lowering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shop to find "the whole goddam ground lifting up." He grabbed a telephone pole as the sidewalk buckled beneath his feet, and looked up at a horrifying sight. A mile-long section of the freeway's upper deck began to heave, then collapsed onto the lower roadway, flattening cars as if they were beer cans. "It just slid. It didn't fall. It just slid," said Reynolds. "You couldn't see nothing but dust. Then people came out of the dust." But not many. Dozens of cars were crushed in the concrete sandwich. Officials hoped, against all odds, that most...
...report also contains statistics on the number of meals served last year--a total of 3,506,068--as well as comparisons between Harvard and other colleges. Over the last seven years, according to the report, meal costs at Harvard have been increasing at rate lower than the Ivy League average...
...month of October, on the eve of the second anniversary of a devastating market crash. "I'm telling you, psychology is really funny. People get crazy in situations like that," said portfolio strategist Elaine Garzarelli. Last week Friday the 13th lived up to its frightful reputation. After drifting lower at a sleepy pace for most of the day, the Dow Jones industrial average abruptly lurched into a hair- raising sky dive in the final hour of trading. By the time the 4 p.m. closing bell halted the rout, the index had dropped a nightmarish 190.58 points, or nearly...
DRUGSTORE COWBOY. Matt Dillon and friends go on a drug spree in Gus Van Sant's eye-catching tour of the lower depths. Dillon, a punk Montgomery Clift, is pure Acapulco gold as a smart addict who gets scared straight...
This is New York City? Right. Lower Manhattan. Battery Park City. At lunchtime, when the famous New York pace slows to idle, the "suits" from the World Financial Center loosen their ties and go down to the river to join couples, amazed tourists and mothers with strollers. On a sun-splashed October day, this new way-downtown nook hints of the Mediterranean...