Word: lowing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...level," says Planned Parenthood president Gloria Feldt. When Buffalo, N.Y., abortion doctor Barnett Slepian was killed last fall, she says, "his picture was crossed out within 15 minutes." But in the end, the Portland case used a single standard for its Internet defendants and those who threatened doctors with low-tech, Old West-style WANTED posters. If threats are specific and imminent, the jury said, it doesn't matter how they are published. (In another blow to the Nuremberg Files, its Internet service provider shut it down late last week; its backers are likely to look for a new home...
...Robert Rubin, Alan Greenspan and Larry Summers--are working to stop what has become a plague of economic panic. Their biggest shield is an astonishingly robust U.S. economy. Growth at year's end was north of 5%--double what economists had expected--and unemployment is at a 28-year low. By fighting off one collapse after another--and defending their economic policy from political meddling--the three men have so far protected American growth, making investors deliriously, perhaps delusionally, happy in the process...
...high stakes, educators hope, will translate into high scores. That has apparently been the case in Texas, which has long used its Texas Assessment of Academic Skills to tag schools that are low performers. Five years ago, just over half the state's students passed all the components of the TAAS; last year more than three-quarters did. During his campaign for re-election, Governor George W. Bush vowed to up the ante by holding back students who fail the TAAS. Says Bush: "In Texas we have found that when you raise the bar, people rise to the challenge...
...adults showing that those who had lived with a partner were 46% more likely to divorce than those who had not. "The longer you cohabit, the more tolerant you are of divorce," says David Popenoe, the sociologist who co-wrote the study. "You're used to living in a low-commitment relationship, and it's hard to shift that kind of mental pattern...
...past such expensive, out-of-reach accessories were available only in pictures in the fashion magazines. But a new generation of higher-quality, low-cost extensions is going mainstream and becoming big business. By doing so, hair extensions have crossed ethnic lines: African-American women have long used them, particularly in the '90s for braided styles...