Word: risen
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...hasn't all been hitting, through the staff ERA has risen from 3.72 in 1983 to 4.29 now Junior Charlie Marchese (6-0, 267 ERA) yielded a three-run, wind-added blast in the first inning of the opener, but Harvard got all three runs back on a two-out rally in the bottom of the inning. The Crimson sent eight men to the plate again in the second, and Marchese took a 7-3 lead into the top of the third Marchese contained the Tigers, freshman Chris Marchok tidied things up--four straight strikeouts, no earned runs...
...industry, while neglecting to ensure a corresponding rise in food production. At the same time, he encouraged his people to maintain the country's explosive birth rate. Because of this, and a striking rise in life expectancy (from 40 in 1950 to over 60 today), China's population has risen by more than 500 million since World War II. That is roughly the equivalent of moving all the people of Western Europe and the U.S. into the already overcrowded Middle Kingdom...
...Treasury Secretary and one of the Administration's most ardent supply-siders. Johnson reworked the tax figures to account for the impact of inflation and unemployment. He found that even after those corrections, the share of taxes borne by the 5% of taxpayers with the highest incomes had risen from 32.9% to 34%. Says Johnson: "A perfectly plausible explanation for this phenomenon is that upper-income people are diverting more of their income away from tax shelters into taxable investments...
Since 1950 the percentage of federal revenue that comes from the income tax has risen from 40% to 48% (see chart), and politicians sense that public resentment is coming to a boil. In his State of the Union address, President Reagan said he had asked the Treasury Department to devise "a plan of action to simplify the entire tax code, so that all taxpayers, big and small, are treated more fairly." The Treasury plan will not be ready until after the election, but at least half a dozen proposals are already percolating in Congress. The Democratic presidential candidates support...
None of that good news, however, came free. The cost, in part, was sharply increased postal rates for both businesses and individuals. The price of a first-class stamp, a mere 4? a generation ago, has risen since 1971 from 8? to the current 20?. The Postal Service has applied to the Postal Rate Commission, which reviews requests for rate increases, for a raise to 23? for first-class stamps. It could come as early as October, but probably will not take effect until a few months after the November elections...