Word: risen
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Issam Sartawi, the one P.L.O. leader who advocated exactly the kind of solution Americans like to dream about, a Palestinian state living side by side with Israel, was also murdered, shot dead in Portugal in 1983. Not too many Palestinians have since risen to take up his cause. It is truer to say that terrorism is a root cause of the continuing Arab-Israeli conflict than vice versa...
...other sculptor's imagination was more manifestly connected to his past, even to his infancy, than Moore's. Like D.H. Lawrence, he came from a mining village; his father had labored in the pit and risen to become an engineer. His mother bore eight children, and one does not need to be an exegete to realize that it is to her that his work insistently refers -- those broad- backed, maternal figures, like sentinels, their bodies expanded into bosses and swells that suggest an infant's apprehension of the breast, or hollowed into womblike cavities. The fundamental experience of work that...
...nearby fishing village of Yakutat gathered in the Alaska Native Brotherhood Hall for a briefing by scientists who have flocked to study what the U.S. Geological Survey has called a "world-class natural event." By last week, waters of the stream-fed fjord, renamed Russell Lake, had risen more than 62 ft., and were still climbing, covering the beaches and then the steep, alder-lined banks...
...corruption. In the 1970s, Congress tackled widespread abuses in campaign finance by wealthy individuals and in effect directed candidates' fund raising toward industry, union and issue-oriented gifts from regulated political- action committees. The device proved effective beyond anyone's imagining: since 1974, the number of PACs has risen from 608 to 4,092, the number of contributors has grown to about 4.5 million, and total donations may reach an estimated $125 million -- perhaps a quarter of all funding -- for this year's House and Senate races. Most PAC money goes to incumbents and comes from groups seeking legislative favors...
...dollar is in some ways stronger than it appears. While it has fallen against major currencies, when it is valued against a broader measure of 25 currencies, it has hardly dropped at all. It has decreased less than 4% against the Taiwan yuan since March 1985 and actually risen nearly 4% against the South Korean...