Word: lowering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...house near me worth a minimum of $65,000 was recently offered for sale by HUD for $50,000 (mistake No. 1). I bid $58,100, but lost it to a bid of $54,000 because the Government decided to accept the lower offer even before the bids were opened (mistake No. 2). One bumbled sale a real estate depression does not make. But if it's happening in my neighborhood, you have to wonder whether it won't be happening in others as well...
...only the second time in independent India's history. Several corruption scandals, as well as Gandhi's accelerating isolation from his people, helped squander the reserves of public support that in 1984 had given his party an unprecedented 415 of the 542 seats in the Lok Sabha, the lower house of Parliament. Congress has been reduced to a sorry 192 seats, having lost power to a disparate opposition led by Gandhi's archrival, Vishwanath Pratap Singh...
Larger universities have an advantage oversmaller universities, with a greater pool ofathletic talent. Also, other schools havedifferent admission policies for athletes. Somehave lower standards that allow more athletes tocompete...
...lack of statistical information about theeffects of these other plans has limiteddiscussion, masters said. A study two weeks ago byDean K. Whitla, director of the Office ofInstructional Research and Development, indicatedthat although a non-ordered choice system allowingthree choices would significantly lower the numberof students receiving their first-choice houses,about 90 percent would still receive one of theirchoices...
Wilson's script concerns itself with big themes like art, death, sex and love, and it addresses them in the lower Manhattan apartment of Anna (Nell Benjamin) and her friend Larry (Alan Krischer...