1.   It is known that attacks on plants by herbivores reduce the quality of the tissues for subsequent feeding.

2.   And the proposals would reduce the quality of care for the poor.

3.   Another problem, some professors say, is that the rush to accept students reduced the quality of the freshman class.

4.   Because of the booming stock market, he says, Americans over all could nearly triple their annual giving without reducing the quality of their life styles.

5.   Both conditions harm the fineness of the fiber, reducing the quality of the cotton.

6.   A cold snap hit West Texas late last month, reducing quality of the crop.

7.   But EPA Administrator Christie Whitman said that the state failed to show that a waiver of a federal Clean Air Act provision would not reduce air quality.

8.   But Kucharski said those other products use a patchwork of smaller detectors to create their images whose quality are reduced by light loss and image distortion.

9.   But nutrients like phosphorus from such plants encourage algae growth and cloudiness, reducing water quality, said Goldstein.