Word: risen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...results are impressive by any standard. Last year the number of suspensions was down to 32, from 200 in 1978. Reading and achievement scores have risen, and there is a new sense of optimism and confidence in the halls. Of this year's 300-plus seniors, 85% will go on to attend college (acceptance letters are plastered on one wall). The students have received offers of some $1.3 million in financial aid, compared with less than $1 million in 1978. Luis Nuñez, 17, who has seven brothers and sisters and whose mother is on welfare, has already...
...Value Line have established an astounding record of outperforming the market. An investor who bought the 100 top-ranked stocks each year since 1965 and held them for twelve months would have scored a gain of more than 1,300%. The Dow Jones industrial average, by contrast, has risen less than 30% during the same stretch...
...Developers flocked to build skyscrapers in Denver as the U.S. turned to the resource-rich Rocky Mountain region for relief from OPEC price gouging. Now much of that steel-and-glass space stands empty. The downtown vacancy rate, less than 1% when the energy boom peaked in 1981, has risen to 13%; the city wide rate is 20%. One landlord had offered real estate agents free trips to Paris and even luxury BMW autos as bonuses for helping to fill a new building. Other developers are giving up. Canterra Energy of Canada, an oil and gas exploration company, has dropped...
...whatever the nature of Chicago's turmoil, the new mayor must move to ease it. On Wednesday afternoon at a press conference following the "unity lunch." Washington said. "There is divisiveness. We are aware of it. For some reason, we want to keep it hidden, but it has risen to the surface. There will be friction recurrent friction. One must be sensitive to different cultures, different ideologies and colors...
They are going to realize, O'Neil says, that such institutions are depriving municipalities of a significant portion of their tax base. He argues that in Boston alone, the percentage of tax-exempt property has risen from 31 percent to 63.5 percent since the outspoken official started introducing the bills...