Word: risen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...since her first, Entertaining, in 1982, but she has also become at 47 the guru of good taste (and taste buds) in American entertaining, looked to by millions of American women for guidance about everything from weddings to weeding. From her beginnings as a Westport, Conn., caterer, she has risen like cream, until she now supplies her expertise through a newsletter, videos, seminars and lectures. Says Stewart: "I leave a lecture with 800 or 900 new friends -- I consider them my friends -- who will buy all my books, write to me and come to my seminars...
BOSTON--The number of doctors practicing in Massachusetts has risen in the last decade, according to a new study of physician supply, meaning that reports of medicine's demise in the Bay State may be premature...
...gain experience in the job market. Businesses, the argument goes, would hire and train more teenagers if only their labor were cheap enough. Of course, as the minimum wage stagnated, the cost of teenage labor declined dramatically in real terms since 1981, but teenage employment rates have not risen...
ROSS JOHNSON. A native of Canada, the RJR Nabisco president, 56, has always risen to the top. In 1985, as head of Nabisco Brands, he advocated the merger between that company and RJR Reynolds. Just three years later, as head of RJR, Johnson apparently changed his mind. In October he and a group of top managers offered shareholders $17.6 billion to take the company private, a price they later increased to $22.7 billion...
...current rules, the Government pays set rates for designated services, no matter what the circumstances of a case. Although the Government has raised Medicare compensation 11% between 1984 and this year, payments to hospitals have not kept pace with the costs of care for elderly patients, which have risen 22% in the same period. Medicaid, the federal program that covers the poor, is no safety net either. "It's a prescription for disaster," says Kenneth Robbins, president of the Illinois Hospital Association...