11.   Academically, Ole Miss is still considered far from elite, and several professors said in interviews that they had lowered their standards after coming here from other institutions.

12.   Administrative changes include lowering cleanup standards for industrial property and allowing greater use of limited containment.

13.   Bush has questioned whether the Richards administration and the Texas Education Agency lowered standards for public schools this year to make them look better in the election year.

14.   But Bennett said lowering the standard under which a trooper may be ordered to take a drug test is an invitation for harassment.

15.   But it lowers the standards of the game.

16.   But members of the panel said that they were not lowering ethical standards that lawyers must follow.

17.   But price competition has already lowered manufacturing standards.

18.   But schools say achieving diversity this way requires lowering academic standards.

19.   But there are some complaints that that kind of pickup lowers the standard for publication of scandalous gossip.

20.   By lowering his standards, he wound up raising his confidence.