Word: lowing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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CAMBRIDGE City elections are approaching--so just how low the turnout will be is a focus of speculation. Once the elections are over and the figures are in, political shamans will call on a wild variety of factors to explain the public's lack of interest. The limited significance of the races, the lack of substantial issues involved, the low "sex appeal" of the candidates, and, inevitably, the weather will all be blamed...
ONCE again, it is all but impossible to argue that this democracy is run by the people who compose it. The University of Michigan's "American Voter" study, completed in 1960, showed that low income and fewer than eight years of schooling decrease the probability that a citizen will vote. A recent article in The New Republic by Robert Kuttner reported that 75 percent of upper middle class people vote while less than 40 percent of low income citizens...
...compared the public lists of students registered to the student population in each River House. The percentages obtained ranged from a high 23 percent of Adams and Dunster to a low 17 percent of Winthrop, Leverett and Kirkland...
According to the Massachusetts House Subcommittee on Energy and Power, the Reagan Administration appropriated $5.4 billion for civilian energy use in 1981, $4.2 billion in 1987, and is requesting only $3.4 billion for 1988. As a result of the proposed cut, more than 2.5 million low-income individuals no longer would receive assistance...
...countries with extremely low wage rates and local costs take over the production of simple commodities, U.S. manufacturers are increasingly turning to market niches in which products are more complex and specialized. This is especially true in the semiconductor industry, where Japanese companies have taken over the market for mass-produced memory chips. Thus Silicon Valley chipmakers like Cypress Semiconductor (1986 sales: $51 million) thrive on diversity. Cypress makes 80 different types of chips in a factory that can accommodate several tooling changes every day. Says T.J. Rodgers, the company president: "You can be very competitive with the Japanese...