Word: risen
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...much on her adroit use of statistics as on moral suasion. She never tires of pointing out that more than 12 million American youngsters -- 25% of the national total -- live below the federally defined poverty level. Or that while poverty has declined among other age groups, it has risen steadily among children. Or that the 10.8 infant deaths among every 1,000 live births in 1984 gave the U.S. one of the highest infant mortality rates among 20 leading industrialized nations. (And from 1983 to 1984, the C.D.F. reported last month, infant mortality rates increased in six of the country...
Since his first days at Harvard when he was just one of a 1000 scared freshmen, Jewett has risen from student to dean of the College, holding the positions of proctor, senior adviser, assistant dean of freshmen, director of freshmen scholarships and dean of admissions en route...
...puts more emphasis on poultry and less importance on red meat, sugar and fatty foods. Auto repairs are diminished too, partly because vehicles tend to last longer. But spending on entertainment, notably cable television and restaurant meals, has risen. Health care is getting less emphasis than a decade ago, which is not to say prices have fallen but only that more costs are covered by insurance...
...infusion of at least 50 million foreigners into the U.S. during the next century will be the reason the population will continue to expand even if the birthrate stays in its present trough. Although the birthrate has risen slightly in the 1980s, the increase has been caused chiefly by the large number of baby-boom women of childbearing age. Immigrant communities tend to grow faster than the U.S. population at large; Hispanics in the U.S., for example, should increase at a rate of 3% a year until the end of this century. Even allowing for that, the U.S. fertility rate...
...crackdown on heavy payrolls. A large portion of the layoffs from restructuring have taken place in manufacturing. From 1979 to 1986, total U.S. manufacturing employment declined from some 21 million jobs to 19.1 million. But partly because of this slimming down, U.S. manufacturing productivity -- hourly output -- has risen by an average of 3.8% annually over the past five years, compared with 1.5% in the '70s. But no such productivity improvement is yet evident outside of manufacturing. Says Treasury's Darman: "We have to make ourselves more efficient in the service sector...