Word: lowering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...high-spirited spectators in Candlestick Park were at first either confused or nonchalant. Both teams had finished batting practice. Then a soft, distant rumble grew louder. "It sounded like rolling thunder," said Peter Rubens, a winery manager seated in the right-field lower deck. The stadium shuddered. Light towers swayed. The foul-line poles in left and right field whipped back and forth. Though expansion joints at the top of the stadium absorbed the blow, chunks of concrete fell off, precisely as planned. One dangerous block crashed into a seat in Section 53. Only a moment before, its occupant...
...computer revenues will expand an estimated 6% to 8% during the next few years. That pace would delight most industrialists, but among computer makers it represents an abrupt comedown. Profits are being squeezed even more. Last week the world's No. 1 and No. 2 computer makers announced sharply lower earnings during the most recent quarter. IBM said its profits declined nearly 30%, to $877 million, and Digital Equipment's earnings were off more than 32%, to $150.8 million...
...fiscal 1990, the law required Congress to produce a budget with a deficit of less than $110 billion. Despite the Administration's optimistic forecasts of continued strong economic growth and lower interest rates plus some fiscal legerdemain, congressional efforts fell $6.1 billion short...
...president of CBS Broadcast Group, was parking his car at Candlestick Park when the earthquake hit, and he subsequently spent hours searching for a working telephone or open airport. "It's remarkable that television got satellite feeds out at all, given that things weren't working even at a lower level of technology," he says. San Francisco's two dailies, also without power, had trouble making their deadlines with abbreviated editions, and newspapers across the country relied heavily on TV for their information...
What better month for an Indian politician to seek re-election than November? The harvest and festival seasons have just ended, leaving voters in an ebullient mood, and the weather is tolerable. No wonder, then, that Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi last week scheduled national elections for Parliament's lower house late next month, seven weeks earlier than necessary...