Word: risen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...area of non-nuclear forces, the U.S. now fields about the same military force as it did in the immediate post-Vietnam period: 2 million soldiers. Some fluctuations are apparent; for example, the number of ships has fallen but the number of army divisions has risen. Yet the continued maintenance of such an enormous fighting force does not appear to reflect doctrinal and technological changes...
...more personal level, concern about paying bills has risen, as has anxiety about the inability to save for the future. Nearly half of those questioned reported having to dip into what savings they have to make ends meet. More than one-third have trimmed their gifts to charity because of higher living costs. Twenty-one percent say they have taken second jobs, and 32% of the men say their wives have gone out to work to bring in extra money...
...Coventry-Stratford-Cotswolds Loop, a drive of 200 to 300 miles that can take a leisurely three or four days, with scarcely a neon sign in sight. (A Leyland Mini rents for about $100 a week, unlimited mileage, and sips petrol as if it were rare brandy.) Coventry has risen nobly from the ashes of its 1940 bombing. Next to the surviving western spire of the late medieval cathedral stands the great modern cathedral with vertical thrusts of rose-colored stone and Graham Sutherland's striking altar tapestry...
Only in the past few months have they risen high enough for producers to consider seriously holding more cattle back from the market for breeding. Says Lauren Carlson, president of the National Cattlemen's Association: "We are at the critical point right now. Every cattleman is going to be making decisions in the coming weeks that will affect prices for a long time." The decision should be made easier because futures prices for cattle have jumped 50% in the past year and reached new records-a sign that prices will go higher in the months ahead. Thus it would...
Although the price has not risen. Radcliffe may sell the stock anyway unless Bank of America comes up with a more acceptable policy regarding its loans to businesses operating in South Africa, Robert H. Gardiner '37, treasurer of Radcliffe, said last Tuesday...