Word: risen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Just in time to hit motorists at the start of the peak driving season, gasoline prices have risen about 25% in the past two months, to a U.S. average of $1.25 per gal. The pain at the pump is largely the result of higher crude- oil prices, and no relief is in sight. Members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, whose squabbling has sometimes led to price wars, were relatively cooperative with one another when they met last week in Vienna. Because of strong worldwide demand for OPEC's crude, the group decided that it could boost its self...
...humanity, the editors took greater liberties. Not even works of Methodism's co-founder and greatest hymnodist, Charles Wesley, were spared. In his Hark, the Herald Angels Sing, "pleased as man with men to dwell" becomes "pleased with us in flesh to dwell." In Christ the Lord Is Risen Today, "sons of men and angels say Alleluia" is recycled as "earth and heaven in chorus say Alleluia." As for other hymns: God of Our Fathers is now God of the Ages; Good Christian Men, Rejoice metamorphoses into Good Christian Friends, Rejoice; and O Little Town of Bethlehem's angels promise...
...Class of '89 has already made pledges of $34,485, almost $3000 short of the record set in 1986. This year's class gift could end up as much as $15,000 more than last year's total. In addition, the partipation rate has risen from 33 percent to almost 45 percent, according to Class Gift Committee Co-Chair Jack Orchard...
...world, America has lost some of its radiant pride of place. Japan has risen. Europe is organizing itself into a new collective power. The Soviet Union is struggling to escape the dustbin of history. Gorbachev, a magician of much elan, attempts to rescind the hoax of Communism without denouncing its idea. It is fascinating to watch a smart man trying to defend a premise that is beneath his intelligence...
...Greenspan, the Fed has engineered the slowdown by nudging up interest rates for more than a year in hopes of keeping inflation in check. Since May 1988, the prime rate that banks charge major corporate customers has climbed from 8.5% to 11.5% and fixed rates on home mortgages have risen from about 10% to 11.5%. Yet while the tight money has clobbered housing and other big-ticket items, inflation poses a serious threat. If Greenspan vigorously pushes interest rates higher to combat that threat, he risks a recession; if he tries to ease up just enough to permit the economy...