Word: lowering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...however, was merely a repetition of a pledge first made more than a year ago. China also agreed to let a Voice of America reporter into the country for the first time since July. But if those are the only results of the Scowcroft-Eagleburger mission, it will not lower the criticism a decibel...
...spokesman. "We target Roman Catholicism because no other religion so energetically tries to influence public policy." Outside four Catholic churches in Los Angeles last week, ACT UP protesters offered free condoms and safe-sex pamphlets to parishioners. Members of the group have occupied drug-company offices to demand lower prices for AIDS medicines, chained themselves to a banister at the New York Stock Exchange, and staged same-sex "kiss-ins" at last year's Democratic and Republican national conventions...
...Personally, I would like to win the NCAAs in March," Rainey said. "As a team, I would like us to be contenders at the Heptagonals, with a finish no lower than third...
Members of the Area Four Coalition also said that helping the community lower the escalating crime and drug rates will be one of many benefits of the teen center...
After more than two troubled years as the Government's top savings and loan regulator, M. Danny Wall fell victim to the nation's spreading S&L scandal. The clamor for his ouster mounted last month after lower-ranking bank examiners told Congress that Wall had unduly delayed for 21 months a Government takeover of high-flying financier Charles Keating's Lincoln Savings & Loan Association, whose collapse could cost taxpayers $2.5 billion. Last week Wall finally bowed to the pressure and resigned as director of the Office of Thrift Supervision. He had been victimized, Wall complained, by "simplistic efforts...