Word: lowers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last week's poll: "The only thing that counts is the poll on Nov. 8. When the people compare our records, they will understand what a retrogressive character Griffin is." Williams intends to accentuate the negative in Griffin's congressional record-votes against poverty bills, aid to lower education, rent subsidies, the "demonstration cities" program...
...code will tolerate a great deal, if not everything. In effect, it merely ratifies the changes that have taken place in American sensibilities. The old puritanical tone is virtually gone. The first principle of the old code stated that "no picture shall be produced which will lower the moral standards of those who see it." The new code leads off with the suggestion that movies should "keep in closer harmony with the mores, the culture, the moral sense and the expectation of our society...
...physics teacher at Michigan's Highland Park Junior College, is the main proponent of this modern grasp at immortality. Since 1947, he has been interested in cryogenics, the science of freezing substances at extreme temperatures. For precedents, he points out that technicians have already succeeded in reanimating lower forms of animal life. In his book The Prospects of Immortality, Ettinger proposes that humans take advantage of this example by having their bodies frozen instead of buried or cremated...
...higher cost of food. Meanwhile, Wall Street had a kind of relapse. Two weeks ago, after President Johnson announced the suspension of the 7% corporation tax credit for capital investment, the market rallied strongly. Last week it staggered through five uncertain trading days, closed 24 points lower on the Dow-Jones industrial average...
...Germany's Volkswagen led the way, announcing that the East Coast port-of-entry price for the modest Beetle would jump from $1,585 to $1,639. Then, in rapid order, came Ford, with an average $107 hike; Chrysler, with a $92 boost, and General Motors, with a lower and more competitive $53 increase...