Word: risen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...affairs the intellectuals seem to have so little effect today, says Social Scientist David Riesman, it is "rather more by their own feelings of inadequacy and failure than by direct intimidation." In the '303, the intellectual had a politico-social program to offer. But the "discontented classes" have risen, and though still discontent, their wants, says Riesman, "are much less easily formulated . . . They must continually seek for reasons explaining their unrest-and the reasons developed by intellectuals for the benefit of previous proletariats are of course quite irrelevant...
...economics professor said that in the past the Reserve had been generally reluctant to use its authority for "fear of stepping on toes." Harris pointed out that bank loans, consumer and housing credit, wages and prices had all risen out of proportion to all expectations, by December...
...strip has been well-received in translation," Capp explained. "They're even holding a Scherezade Hawkins Day in Portugal. But three times the English have risen as a man to protest against Li'l Abner. I know nothing about international affairs. Try my translators...
...eight years since, the fieldstone stable has sprouted a shining wing and become a library; the dissecting room of The Castle has become a dining hall. Thirty-one major buildings have risen, roads have been built, shrubs planted. Respected academic names and promising younger ones have brought ability and prestige to the result: Brandeis, the first Jewish-founded nonsectarian university in the country...
...more serious criticism of Macmillan's budget was its failure to attack Britain's basic problem: lagging productivity. The latest treasury bulletin for industry exposed it baldly: since 1950, British wages have risen by 45% while output per man increased by only 7%. In the same period, when German wages increased by 40%, output increased by 38%. The Daily Express put Britain's condition bluntly: "Too little work for too much money...