Word: lowering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...partner at the investment firm Touche Ross said, "Any time the after-tax consequences are greater, management looks harder at expenses." In other words, if Maison Robert's corporate customers couldn't deduct their $16 desserts, Maison Robert would have to lower its prices. That's what the free market is all about...
...more dramatic examples included European spark plugs ($7.60 in Tokyo, $1.70 in New York), U.S.-made electric shavers ($90.15 vs. $44.95) and Australian bed linen ($63.40 vs. $20). The Bush Administration is likely to cite the survey as evidence that Japanese trade barriers hinder competition that would lead to lower prices in that country...
...most-fit groups, which included people in the habit of running up to 40 miles a week, death rates tended to be lower still, but the improvement was not so dramatic. In short, says Carl Caspersen, a physical-activity epidemiologist at the federal Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta: "You don't have to be a marathoner to greatly reduce your mortality. After that first jump in activity, you're not buying that much more reduced risk...
...authorities. Says Nikolai Steinberg, former chief engineer of the Chernobyl reactor and now deputy chairman of the State Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Industry: "We're not the only ones who came up with that figure. International scientists were involved as well." U.S. experts support the lower estimate. Nonetheless, Yablokov and other deputies have demanded that the Chernobyl installation, which is still operating, be closed down completely...
Under Cambridge's system of proportional representation, votes in excess of the quota are transferred to lower choices on the ballot. Duehay's election was announced at 10:55 p.m., after election officials began to transfer Wolf's 868 surplus ballots...