lower jaw English

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What does lower jaw mean?

lower jaw

— noun the jaw in vertebrates that is hinged to open the mouth

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lower jaw English » English

mandible

chin

lower jawbone

jawbone

submaxilla

mandibula

jowl

jaw

mandibular bone

underjaw

lower mandible

lower

lantern jaw

gum

cheek

beard

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We don't do it, because we give safety a lower priority than our desire to spend less time driving.

It would seem not, as it is also true that very trusting people also have lower incomes than the average.

Perhaps most academics, who are at the lower end of the skill and qualification-adjusted income scale, do the same.

But we can take it a step further back: people's income is lower and their jobs are insecure because they were not spending a short time ago - and so on, backwards in time, in a repeating feedback loop.

The European Central Bank, fixated on inflation, will be slow to lower interest rates, and the European Stability Pact will make it impossible for fiscal policy to offset these weaknesses.

Conventional theory suggests that a single country (or group of countries) consolidating its finances can expect lower interest rates, a weaker currency, and an improved trade position.

Unions, too, are resisting the necessary wage reductions, and public and private debtors fear the prospect of insolvency if their assets and revenues are assessed at a lower value, while their debts remain unchanged.

Those crisis countries that do not want to take it upon themselves to lower their prices should be given the opportunity to leave the eurozone temporarily in order to devalue prices and debts.

Another assist may come from America's recent move to tap its strategic petroleum reserves in an effort to push oil prices lower.

Adjusted for inflation, gas has not been this cheap for the past 35 years, with the price this year 3-5 times lower than it was in the mid-2000's.

Meanwhile, the fracking bonanza in the US not only delivers a much greater reduction for free, but also creates long-term social benefits through lower energy costs.

And, with tighter labor-force attachment on the part of those who have jobs, the unemployment rate thereafter would likely be about 0.1 percentage points lower in the indefinite future.

How can growth be revived when austerity will almost surely mean a further decrease in aggregate demand, sending output and employment even lower?

When they eventually find work, it will be at a much lower wage.

Cutting these programs will lower American economic growth in the long term, with negative consequences both at home and abroad.

The data show, intriguingly, that those who show levels of trust well below the average for the country they live in are likely to have lower incomes.

And in places where lights are not used very often, a lower-price incandescent bulb can cost less overall than the energy-efficient alternative.

On the contrary, it may have prompted the arrest of a lower-level indictee for crimes in Darfur.

Fewer remittances flowing into Uganda could mean less economic activity - or simply lower prices.

At the same time, emerging-market central banks need to accumulate gold reserves, which they still hold in far lower proportion than do rich-country central banks.