Word: climbed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sadat with satisfaction: "No one ever knows what I am thinking, not even my own family. I go alone." He says that the long months he spent in prison under British rule turned him into a meditative man; his family tells that even as a boy he used to climb onto the straw roof of their village home and stare for hours at the stars...
...machinery and raw materials were imported, an influx of 750,000 refugees from the former African territories and a 30% inflation rate. Of late even the Premier's personal popularity had begun to slip because of the rising cost of food, inflation that has continued to climb to 33%, unemployment, increased crime and other problems...
...never have they been as vehement as this year. With good reason: partly because Japan's home economy-the third biggest in the world, after the U.S. and the Soviet Union-has shown little growth, its industrialists have launched a spectacularly successful export drive. Despite a rapid climb in the value of the yen, which should raise the price of Japanese goods in world markets, the nation's surplus of exports over imports is heading toward a record $15 billion this year, draining money out of the economies of the U.S. and Western Europe...
...Mather is a wide-open House with a double front gate that's always open, side gates, and a back fence that outsiders can easily climb," Orf said...
Since then, the story of The Post has been one of a steady upward climb in respectability and circulation, and in 1959, it surpassed The Washington Star in advertising and circulation figures, to be Washington's leading paper. The struggle to overtake The New York Times in national reporting has been more difficult, though, and only in the past ten years or so has The Post had the resources necessary for such an effort...