Word: risen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...strikes can be costly. GM announced last week that its third-quarter earnings fell 43%, largely because of the one-week walkout by U.S. workers in September. Securities analysts figure that the first seven days of the Canadian strike cost GM $35 million; the losses would have risen to $135 million a week if there had not been a settlement...
...Presidential visits to Illinois. His relationship with the President, his campaign argues, represents the "Illinois Advantage": Percy's got clout in the White House and can help bring jobs to Illinois. He touts the economic "miracle" of 1981-84. Yet during these "miraculous" years, the Illinois unemployment rate has risen from 8.1 per cent to 8.7 per cent. The state has lost more than 250,000 jobs in manufacturing industries alone. How's that for clout...
...secure telephones, which have so far been parceled out to federal officials with unusual frugality. Less than four years ago, intelligence sources say, the combined networks of secure telephones operated by the Federal Government probably numbered just upwards of 1,000 units. That total has risen steadily under the Reagan Administration; the exact number is secret, but unofficial estimates put the new total at between 2,000 and 3,000 units. One reason the Government has been slow to install scrambled lines has been the cost: each secure unit runs about $31,000. Another has been complaints from users that...
America's national defense and prestige have risen even more conspicuously. Our support for the British defense of the Falkland Islands, the selfless service of Marines as a peacekeeping force in Lebanon, the lifting of the senseless Soviet gram embargo, the election of a free government in H. Salvadot and the advent of peace negotiations there, the withdrawal of martial lass restrictions upon the people of Poland, and marked growth in relations with Communist China ill represent significant international achievements...
Other intangible but no less important indices of national progress reflect well on this Administration. Crime rates are down across the country. SAT scores among high school students have risen. The Los Angeles Olympics-despite a Soviet bloc boycott provoked by the Carter-Mondale Administration became an attend of international joy and celebration. Crackdowns on organized crime and illicit drug tratficking have succeeded at an unprecedented level...