Word: lowering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Pushing the relatively weak Russian economy to keep up with the American arms buildup (redoubled in the '80s) and underwrite expansionism has led the Soviet Union into dire straits and the desire to lower the level of the arms race--an option made possible since U.S. policy is committed to the "containment" and not the "rollback" of Communism...
...Gazette reported that the parish has agreed to put $500,000 of the purchase price towards the clean-up of the chemicals. If the cost is lower, then the extra money will go to St. Paul...
...Philip Dowds, a member of the Cambridge Citizens for Liveable Neighborhoods, said Harvard was planning a "show and tell" session at the church tomorrow. Harvard will present the plans for the lot tomorrow night in St. Paul's lower church...
...community planning at Kansas State: "Many of these communities peaked in 1890. This has been the longest deathbed scene in history." Many towns tried to diversify in postwar years by attracting industry, especially low-paying light-manufacturing businesses. Many of those jobs, however, were eventually lost to even lower-wage foreign suppliers, especially during the run-up in value of the U.S. dollar in the early 1980s. During this decade, rural areas have created new jobs at only 40% the rate of metropolitan centers...
While deregulation has brought lower prices and better services for many Americans, it has not worked out that way for residents of sparsely populated areas. Most economists would argue that the old system subsidized small-town Americans by requiring companies to provide services at a loss to such areas, but the U.S. traditionally saw rural development as worth the price. Says Jack Tierce, an administrator at the Kansas state corporation commission: "The transportation system of the U.S. was based on moving people from the densely populated East out West. Now it is driving people from rural areas into metropolitan areas...