Word: lowers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Smith. But now GM is reviving--though also downsizing--its plans. Instead of 100,000 midsize cars a year, it intends to produce 40,000 seven-seat multipurpose vans annually. GM has also concluded what Smith calls "a strategic agreement" with Japan's Suzuki to "work together in the lower end of the car market," and is looking at joint projects it could undertake with Daewoo of South Korea...
...being called, will focus more than ever on pumping up their domestic economies, which are suffering from slow growth and high unemployment. Though the new European Central Bank will officially be independent of any national government, political leaders of the 11 countries will be pressing the bank to lower interest rates and keep them down, in coordination with the U.S. Federal Reserve. (Early in the month, all 11 countries, for the first time, cut interest rates simultaneously.) Sharp fluctuations in exchange rates would be a very unwelcome complication to this effort. So, Putnam predicts, financial technocrats will get involved. "Instead...
...marked the third consecutive year HMC increases the University's endowment by more than 20 percent. Recent bonuses had been held down by lower endowment growth earlier in the decade...
Hold that plane to Spain -- Augusto Pinochet is staying put for now. Britain's House of Lords has ordered yet another hearing after overturning a lower court ruling that would have extradited the former Chilean dictator to Spain. Pinochet's lawyers had appealed the lower court's decision because the judge on the five-person panel who cast the deciding vote is affiliated with Amnesty International, one of the prime movers in the push to bring Pinochet to trial...
...example, prices at Rigs hardware store in Porter Square are significantly lower than at Dickson Bros. Hardware on Eliot Street in Harvard Square. A Black & Decker Dustbuster costs $39.99 at Dickson Bros. while at Rigs, the same item costs $32.99. A standard Masterlock costs 4.89 at Dickson Bros. compared to $3.99 at Rigs...