Word: risen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...normal way to amass a controlling majority of a company's stock is a tender offer or a proxy fight. But takeover by tender has become much more expensive because stock prices have risen more than 50% on the average since August in the ongoing bull market. The Dow Jones industrial average closed last week at a record 1226.20. Buying a controlling interest may have been possible a year ago for only a few million dollars; now the price could be much higher...
...headline-making race occurred in March during the Eastern Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women meet at the ITT. The time was by for Stricker's fastest, but it exemplifies a Harvard career that has risen anything but slowly...
During her 1 1/2 years the sophomore sensation has competed in varsity cross country and indoor and outdoor track. She has risen to the top in all three. As a cross country runner Stricker was number one along with team-mate Kate Wiley, placing first in the eastern regionals in Vermont. She followed this performance with a superb indoor track season which saw the Colorado native become a double winner in the Heptagonals and take third in the two mile at the NCAAs on her way to earning All-America honors...
...short, and then dead silence most of the day. The Libyans are present too in one of their "people's bureaus," but they tend to scowl, never remove their hats and announce the same $4 million loan so often that some Grenadians believe that the figure has now risen to $8 million or $12 million. The Cubans seem to be doing the work for everybody else: they have 400 men driving steamrollers and laying down asphalt at the new airport. They also have teachers, doctors and dentists all over the countryside. Most Grenadians tend to salute such revolutionary zeal...
...past several months, complaints from students and faculty members that Harvard's computer facilities are inadequate have risen to a new high...