Word: lowering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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UNINSURED students--those not covered by either a parent's health insurance or a policy of their own--are more likely to come from lower-income families who qualify for state and federal financial aid. The good news for these students is that they are allowed to use their financial aid dollars to pay for the required health insurance...
Election officials estimated the "quota" of votes needed for election at 2698, meaning that 850 of Wolf's votes will be transferred to candidates who were lower choices on her first-place ballots...
These results are unofficial. Candidates areelected to the nine-member council once they reachthe quota, which election officials estimated at2698 votes. In Cambridge's complicated system ofproportional representation, votes are transferredto lower-choice candidates after the first choicesmeet the quota or are dropped from the count forhaving gotten the fewest votes...
...powerful lobbies in the nation, steadfastly behind it. When former Treasury Secretary Donald T. Regan's tax reform plan proposed eliminating the the mortgage interest deduction for vacation homes, NAR president David Roberts denounced it as a prescription for "less growth in the American standard of living and a lower quality of life...
...Lower quality of life for whom? People with second homes on Martha's Vineyard? Do they really deserve a multi-billion dollar government handout...