Word: lows
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Complaints about the statute are familiar: Too many people are potential targets because it covers so many levels of government; the threshold of evidence requiring the Attorney General to call for an independent counsel is far too low; there is little accountability for the lawyers heading the probes until the very end, after they've had vast resources and all the time in the world to stalk their quarry...
...until just a few years ago--it is now the crown jewel in the financial giant's strategy for growth. That strategy calls for Citibank and its parent, Citigroup, to reduce their reliance on cyclical corporate and real estate lending, which tends to be high risk and relatively low profit. It will emphasize the lower-risk, higher-margin business of consumer banking--and especially one-stop financial shopping for the world's booming population of the newly rich...
...known to have a 100% iron-saturation level for years," but his physicians didn't do anything about it, says Dr. Geoffrey Block, director of the Hemochromatosis Clinic at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. "There's still a perception that if the iron levels aren't low, you don't need to worry...
California unions turned out tens of thousands of voters in the election, helping spur a Democratic triumph. Now they are calling in the chits to promote "a living wage" for low-income service workers. A new Los Angeles ordinance requires firms doing business with the city to pay $7.39 an hour with benefits or $8.64 without--higher than the state minimum of $5.75. Now, in an effort that may be duplicated in other cities, pro-labor officials are refusing subsidies to developers who want to build big projects, including the Staples sports arena and a Hollywood theater-and-hotel complex...
...fully awakened by the mournful and menacing wail of the howlers--large red monkeys that make a new-day announcement that they are in charge of all the forest's primates. The collective howl begins like a low siren in a fire station, rises to swallow the sky, then ebbs again. It makes you feel alone in the world, like the first human being ever to hear...