Word: climbed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tenure as Ronald Reagan's Treasury Secretary has left a sorry legacy: the failure of the so-called Baker plan, the 1985 policy designed to ease the debt burden of Third World nations. The 15 largest borrowers, most of them in Latin America, have seen their debt climb to more than $500 billion, from $350 billion in 1981. The debt load has left local economies a shambles and fragile democracies threatened. After 300 people died in Venezuela two weeks ago ( during riots over austerity measures imposed to pay off foreign debt, the Bush Administration decided that the time had come...
...Administration's early failings and flailings, the President's popularity outside Washington has remained strong: his approval rating has ranged between 59% and 71% in recent polls. For the time being, the President can coast on a strong swell of national contentment and hope that interest rates don't climb too high. He also continues to benefit from his obvious enjoyment of the presidency, his self-deprecating humor, his grasp of the issues raised at press conferences...
After the January inflation report, which included a 0.6 percent rise in the Consumer Price Index, the largest in two years, many economists dismissed it as at least a partial aberration and predicted only a moderate 0.4 climb in February...
This season, having lost three starting attack players to graduation, it's going to take a defensive wall and some emerging shooters for the Crimson to climb back to the top of the college lacrosse game...
Coach Ihsan Gurdal changed his strategy in the crucial third game. Instead of relying on his starters, Gurdal substituted frequently, replacing his middle hitters with stronger servers and passers when they rotated to the back row. The Crimson pulled out to a sizable lead and never let the Eagles climb back in, taking the game...