Word: risen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most important, however, is the fact that costs have risen greatly and that investment returns, which made up 64 percent of Harvard's income in 1845, today amount to only 26 percent, Currently, tuition comprises 22 percent, and "gifts for immediate use" account for another fifth...
...were the visible signs of a great internal problem which was besetting Russia's topmost leaders last week. Russia's vast new emergency farm program was going badly. The outcome may well determine the future of Nikita Khrushchev, the Communist Party secretary who in one year has risen so high that he now stands side by side with Premier Georgy Malenkov in a diumvirate ruling Soviet Russia...
Wine production, if nothing else, was better than ever last year. In France and Spain, growing conditions were perfect, the grapes were larger, and the boys who mash the grapes had bigger feet. But the wine consumers have not risen to meet this new challenge, which, according, to U.N. statistics, involves a mere 636 million gallons of surplus wine. Ready for sale, this surplus wine would fill just slightly more than two-and-a-half billion bottles. This trifling amount of wine would be easy work for any but the present group of apathetic wine drinkers...
Moscow may crow about its subway system, and Parisiennes make love in the "Metro," but nobody likes the MTA. Armed with a home-town Newspaper, the pedestrian has merely to descend into the Harvard Square station to reason why: the price of a ride has risen to twenty cents...
...they waited until the results were publicized and sales started to fall before getting together to make their own tests. The steel companies are another example. Every boost in the price of steel since the war has been followed by a hue & cry, even though the price has risen only 86% since 1939, compared with a 120% rise in all commodities in the same time. But the steel industry did little to take its case to the public...