Word: risen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...American firms in overseas markets comes not only from the cheaper dollar but from a dramatic streamlining of U.S. industry over the past five years. Companies have closed down outmoded factories, and are squeezing more output from those that survive. As a result, America's manufacturing productivity has risen faster than West Germany's and nearly matched Japan's increase during the past two years...
...world's most financially successful nations, its citizens worry about their futures as if they were impoverished. They fret over high tuition bills for their children, over the cost of buying a new house and especially over having enough money once they retire. Corporate pensions have nearly risen to the level of other industrial nations, but most Japanese consider such benefits inadequate. When Matsuoka reaches Honda's mandatory retirement age of 60, for example, he can expect a company pension of about $1,500 a month (with no cost of living increases). "I can't live on that," he says...
...boost in consumption so that Japanese manufacturers can sell more at home and less overseas. Beginning next year, interest on savings accounts will be taxed at a 20% rate. In the meantime, at least part of the population has started to loosen up. Credit-card use has risen sharply, especially among the young, and some Japanese are going into debt to take vacations or buy TV sets...
According to Hammerschmidt, fundraising has actually risen this year in the school's alumni "phone-a-thon." He said that less than 2 percent of alumni contacted refused to donate money because of the policy, and 99 percent of the angry letters his office has received are from non-donors...
Perhaps more important, many women today earn substantial incomes and no longer feel compelled to marry a "good provider." In the era of Joan Collins and Linda Evans, perceptions have changed. "The age at which we look at women as still being attractive and sexy has risen," says Carole Lieberman, a Los Angeles psychiatrist...