Word: lowered
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Under the current format of Major League Baseball, the Yankees will never finish lower than third place in their division. Never. The Twins will never finish higher than third. Never. It just won't happen. That statement alone is absolutely absurd. In the history of professional sports, there has never been as much inequality as there is now in Major League Baseball...
...strategist Karl Rove held a conference call with G.O.P. Senators and told the skeptical and depressed Republicans that Gore's victory in the state supreme court would be short-lived. The court had clearly "overstepped" its authority, Rove said. The U.S. Supreme Court would have no choice but to lower the boom on the state justices. The Senators weren't convinced. They worried that the Supreme Court wouldn't move quickly enough to stop the recount before Gore pulled ahead and the media announced a new winner. That could alter the landscape drastically--and permanently...
Even in friendlier circumstances, reversing a trial court is a tricky business. Appellate courts must be careful about second-guessing lower courts on facts, which the trial judge has often seen firsthand. They have more leeway in reversing for mistakes of law. The Florida justices shrewdly based their decision on what they say were legal mistakes by Judge Sauls on standard of review and burden of proof. Decisions of the canvassing boards do not deserve the highly deferential "abuse of discretion" standard Judge Sauls applied in deciding not to second-guess them, the Florida justices said. Better still, the court...
...waste from the Hudson River, and he started a new effort to salvage the Kyoto treaty to fight global warming after negotiations broke down in the Hague last month. With a flurry of pronouncements this year, he has locked away from loggers and developers more public land in the lower 48 states than any other President. But why, his friends ask and his foes accuse, did he launch so many initiatives at the very end of his term? Why is he cramming in so much now, when he did so little before...
...economy into its present "soft landing." Those rate increases, designed to keep the expansion from overheating, slowed growth from a blistering 5.6% in the second quarter of this year to just 2.4% in the third. And if the economy should falter next year, the Fed could decide to lower rates again. Says Martin Baily, chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers: "Everyone believes Greenspan and his colleagues should continue to do the superb job they have been doing...