Word: risen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard School of Public Health, says that while hunger in the U.S. is nowhere near Third World levels, poor families regularly "miss meals, cut down and go without for a couple of days." The Agriculture Department attacked the report's accuracy, saying that food-stamp spending has risen 12% since...
That is what the market seemed to have been saying for some time. The average top price for the Times industrials had risen from 186 in 1926 to 469. Just in the previous 18 months, General Motors had climbed from 73 to 140, General Electric from 129 to 396. Best of all, in the view of the investors who spent much of their spare time eyeing the tickers in the brokerage houses that were springing up around the country, stocks could be bought on margin, or credit, for as little as 10% in cash. About one-third of the nation...
Wittwer and his co-authors maintain that most of the progress took place after 1978, when Deng began economic reforms by breaking up collective farms and introducing market incentives into agriculture. Since that time, per capita food consumption has risen by almost...
...American people are hooked on the same spending habits as their Government. Consumer installment debt, as a proportion of after-tax income, has risen from 14% in 1983 to 20% last year. Just as consumers during the '20s splurged on such newfangled products as radios and roadsters with rumble seats, today's shoppers have gone into deep hock for compact-disc players and Honda Preludes. The difference is that consumers in 1987 can choose from many more enticing borrowing vehicles, most notably an array of credit cards with huge credit lines at high interest rates. Potentially the most dangerous...
...coed or closed their doors. But today the surviving 101 boast that undergraduate enrollment is surging, despite a declining pool of high school graduates. Last week a preliminary survey of 64 schools, conducted by the Women's College Coalition, showed that the number of entering freshmen this semester has risen an average of 6.6% above last year, with some notable peaks around the academic landscape. The head count at California's Mills College is up 20%; freshman enrollment at the College of New Rochelle in New York has jumped from 92 to 144. At Bryn Mawr in Pennsylvania, early-admissions...