Word: lowers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...while "chain creep"--the replacement of Mom-and-Pop stores with national chains--may raise the ire of local residents, it could lower the cost of living for students who find shopping in the Square more convenient...
...survey of local businesses shows that the Square is a more expensive place to shop only if you shop at independent stores. Chains tend to keep their prices more or less uniform in the same area--in fact, in many instances chain prices are lower in the Square than elsewhere in metropolitan Boston...
...dorm room would be the same without a CD collection. The only question is where to buy it, and the answer is mixed. On some counts, the Square defies myth and has lower prices. At the very least, prices are competitive...
...booms and busts along with the world economy they played in. But for the past decade it has been nothing but bust. The new economy, with its focus on cost cutting and price competition, has tamed inflation to the point that each year Mobil and Union Camp faced progressively lower real prices for their products. Both companies had done pretty much everything they could to wring out costs, but it still wasn't enough...
Some 200,000 Americans should have an easier time affording a home come Jan. 1. Fannie Mae, the government-chartered mortgage financier, just raised its 1999 single-family loan limit to $240,000, from the current $227,000. That means more borrowers will have access to the lower rates and fees of Fannie Mae-backed mortgages...