Word: arisen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...running hard to replace Foley as majority leader, the No. 2 position. It was unclear whether the third-ranking Democrat in the House, majority whip Tony Coelho of California, would seek to move up or would be prevented from doing so by separate ethics questions that have arisen over his business dealings...
...been criticized for "drifting," for being concerned with style at the expense of substance. That's not completely fair. After all, Harry S Truman once said the president is just a "glorified public relations man." Problems arise when public relations takes the place of policy, and these problems have arisen in your presidency...
Already, evidence has arisen that the government is being too protective of its secrets. When Sullivan wanted to introduce a certain memorandum as evidence, prosecutors objected. They said the publicizing of a name in the document would cause irreparable damage...
...addition, The Satanic Verses publisher Viking Penguin has said that it would arrange not to publish a paperback version of the book if such a move would end the controversy and death threats that have arisen. We would strongly object to this type of agreement, which would jeopardize the future of Rushdie's novel. The human mind must not be held hostage...
Such new scenarios have arisen largely because real events so often confounded the old ones. Supply-siders, for instance, boasted that their policies would boost the U.S. savings rate and make Americans more productive. But, like the supply-side forecasts of smaller deficits, both promises failed to come true. The personal savings rate fell from 7.1% in 1980 to about 4% last year. At the same time, the growth of business productivity, or output per hour, averaged a meager 1.4% from 1980 to 1987, half the rate of the 1960s. Reason: the savings decline slowed investments in productive new equipment...