Word: lowers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...past few years, however, the economic upper hand has shifted more toward oil-consuming countries. Asian economies have slowed, decreasing demand, forcing oil-producing nations to vie for market share by exporting more oil at lower prices. One significant effect of the falling prices is the decline of the U.S. oil industry, which is unable to produce oil so cheaply. According to the New York Times, the U.S. now produces 6.4 million barrels of oil daily, as opposed to 9.2 million...
...interview with The Crimson yesterday, Edelman refused to estimate the specific level of participation this year, but said it had been significantly lower than last year. Edelman added that an abundance of more established campus religious groups with similar interfaith offerings played a large role in discouraging participation in HRIF's programs, which were mainly lunchtime discussions on interfaith issues...
...covering damaged paper book jackets with durable plastic covers, Moore lamented the change in his old neighborhood. He estimates that 30 percent of his customers once lived in Cambridge, but that number halved after residential rent control ended in the mid-90s, forcing many of his customers into lower-rent areas...
Friday night at Life, a dance club in lower Manhattan. Grandmaster Flash pulls the 11-p.m.-to-2-a.m. shift, and he's doing his thing. The Furious Five have long since broken up. Flash had drug problems, money problems and a court battle with his old record company, Sugar Hill, but he says today he has no ill will. He's the musical director on HBO's popular Chris Rock Show. And he's helping to develop a movie script about his life. "I was bitter a while back because I got into this for the love," says Flash...
...THEE TO A TEACHING HOSPITAL So suggest two reports out last week. In one, heart-attack patients who were admitted to teaching hospitals had 15% lower odds of dying within a month of treatment, compared with patients hospitalized at nonacademic institutions. A second report had the same message: it found that patients with congestive heart failure, stroke or hip fracture significantly improved their chances of surviving at least a year if treated at a teaching hospital...