Word: lows
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...representatives said the small turnout could be a result of the low level of publicity the representatives' election received...
...effect--restructured the electric utility industry. A no vote would undo the changes. 5 Should the state representative vote for removal of a nuclear reactor on Albany Street? 6 Should the state representative vote for legislation stimulating increased production and availability of affordable housing for the middle class and low-income residents of Massachusetts? 7 Should the state representative vote in favor of universal, affordable and comprehensive health insurance for Massachusetts residents? Source: The Office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth
...failed as a prospector, and made a career for 30 years painting two kinds of scenery: portraits of the settled acres of the well-to-do pastoralists; and views of more exotic wildness, from the bizarrely sculpted sea cliffs of Cape Schanck to the Australian Alps. These mountains are low in comparison to Bierstadt's Rockies, but Von Guerard memorably recorded what he saw from the 7,000-ft. summit of the tallest of them, in North-East View from the Northern Top of Mount Kosciusko, 1863. It is not, as Bierstadt's mountains tended to be, a made...
...least one major subject after the fifth grade. Most black students in Shaker Heights enjoy at least middle-class status. The school system has created special programs to boost black students' test-taking skills. Counseling is available for those with strong potential but low test scores. So far, nothing has worked very well--because some black folks...
Kaye, a Brit who shoots the film with familiar pizazz (low-angle shots, portentous slo-mo, some black-and-white scenes), made his name directing TV commercials in Europe. What's not clear is the product on sale here. It seems to be brotherhood among the races. But David McKenna's script is either cunningly ambiguous or desperately muddled. In racially torn Venice Beach, Calif., the neo-Nazis are pathetic lowlifes, crying out for our contempt. And of course Nazism is a thug ideology. Yet much of the film's violence is committed by blacks; most of the victims...