Word: risen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Horner to redefine the role of women at the new "Harvard-Radcliffe." She pushed for equalizing the ratio of men and women admittees; the percentage of women has risen from 20 percent of the student body to 40 percent today...
...nation's homeless population has risen by 25% in the past year, according to the National Coalition for the Homeless. Desperately seeking relief from the killing cold, the homeless filled shelters to overflowing as the windchill factor in several major cities dropped below zero...
Coming back to Boston Sunday night, I had that awful morning-after feeling that comes from a combination of guilt and alcohol poisoning. True, I had escaped the city that spawned Michael Dukakis for three precious days. True, in that time the thermometer had risen back into the positive numbers. But somewhere in the back of my mind I wondered if I had lived up to my obligations. Might I have tried just a little bit harder to wring a few more drops of alcohol from the mini-bar? Might I have pressed a little bit harder for an expense...
...Gorbachev is not the sort of man who would willingly drag his country back into the dark days of repression, economic hardship and international obloquy. If there is a lesson in the 56-year education of Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, it is that a new, unfamiliar kind of leader has risen in the Soviet Union, and that the old rules of dealing with that long-suffering land are suddenly outdated. For the West, the education is just beginning...
...study by Lipper Analytical Services, investors who have been in Magellan for three years have earned 68% on their money as of the end of November. Over the same period the Standard & Poor's Index of 500 stocks has gone up only 56.7%, and the average stock fund has risen...