Word: lowering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unfortunately, it's too much even to take the universities' ethical claim of avoiding a "bidding war" at face value. First use common sense. When setting financial aid packages together, the overlap group of schools is plainly more likely to decide on a lower award, not a higher one. The whole point of meeting is of course to save money...
...stability-impaired wordsmith we met 15 years ago in author Friedman's earlier novel About Harry Towns is still frisky, still foolish. Still capable, in fact, of careering into a writers' bar in lower Manhattan wearing, because of a recent mugging, only a sheet, and this early in a long evening. Friedman is funny and reliably irrelevant. Writing, he seems to be saying, is less dignified than the mail-order truss business, which is a truth on which to hang your...
...accord requires the two parties to identify by next month industries and export products that could benefit from lower tariffs, and then gradually to reduce those duties. U.S. Administration officials said the affected products would most probably include processed foods, petrochemicals, electronic equipment and automobiles...
...last year. The lira has appreciated against most other currencies. To be sure, interest rates are still in double figures, and unemployment is stuck above 10%, but that figure is skewed by a higher jobless rate in the backward south; in the thriving north, it is lower. Overall, Italy's economic performance is sparkling. How do the Italians do it? Is this a real-life film with Marcello Mastroianni as governor of the Bank of Italy...
This Sunday composer John Zorn will appear at the Adams House Lower Common Room to give a Rehearsal/Performance/Open Reading of his latest piece, Cobra, from 3 until 5 p.m. At this weekend's session, Zorn will work with undergraduates from varied musical backgrounds, including jazz, classical, rock and experimental, teaching them about improvisational experience. Zorn is recognized internationally for his unusual music which combines voiceovers, screeching tires, rap music and jazz. The Museum of Fine Arts will present a retrospective of John Zorn's music on Thursday...