Word: lowers
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...Boston Latin standard--which admits 50 percent of its class solely on grades and test scores and the other 50 percent on race, grades and test scores--is too narrow. Though the system admirably attempts to create a diverse class, it excessively compromises standards of fairness which the Boston lower courts have repeatedly recognized...
...lower-wage labor market is hiring anyone who breathes," she said...
...course, there were some foods with lower calories-from-fat ratios available. The U.S. Department of Agriculture advises consumers to "choose a diet that provides no more than 30 percent of total calories from fat," and the health-conscious Annenbourgeois could easily fill his or her plate with Nacho Cheese Sauce (7.5 percent) or a large mound of Taco Meat that claimed to contain...
Galina Starovoitova was a Russian democratic politician of the old school. An ardent admirer of the late Andrei Sakharov, she had once been a powerful force in the Duma, the lower house of parliament. In recent years her voice was lonely and often ignored. But hers was a name that many Russians knew, and if she no longer held great political power, her moral power remained intact...
...Business. He was nine when the family immigrated from Sicily, where his father had labored in the sulphur pits, to New York City. He took to the streets early, was busted almost at once for shoplifting, later for delivering drugs. Luciano was a tough teenage hoodlum on the Lower East Side when his gang targeted a skinny Jewish kid whose bold defiance won their respect. The encounter led to a merger of Jewish and Italian gangs and a lifelong friendship. When Luciano rebuilt the mob, Meyer Lansky was the architect. A ruthless natural ability enabled them to rise through...