Word: risen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tribulations, the Sandinista regime has made some improvements. The literacy rate has risen from 50% to 87%. Thousands of campesinos have received title to confiscated farm land. But an increasing number of Nicaraguans are beginning to compare the Sandinistas to Somoza. Says a plump, fortyish food vendor, standing in her tin-and plastic-sided stall in Managua's Mercado Oriental: "This is the worst we have ever had it. Everyone is waiting for Edén Pastora." They may have to wait a while. But the spreading disillusionment should put the Sandinistas on notice that political legitimacy does...
...most of the less-developed countries, the global downturn has been devastating. In Costa Rica, where unemployment has risen to 17%, the government is stepping up a program to hand out bread, rice, beans and other food to the jobless. In Tanzania, where inflation is running at 29%, the government has dropped 966 projects from its budget, including the construction of several schools and the country's new capital at Dodoma...
...Growth of Government. Demands for inflation protection have led to a steady swelling of government spending. Since 1960, in the major industrial nations the portion of gross national product consumed by government has gone from 28% to 38%. Though taxes have risen sharply during that period, they have not kept up with spending. Virtually every country is running a record budget deficit...
...operating budget for any hospital that participates in the state-administered Medicaid programs and Blue Cross/Blue Shield. The examiners then add a special cost-of-living index, and decide how much the hospital will be reimbursed in the coming twelve months. Result: annual hospital costs in the state have risen between 8% and 10% since 1976, while the U.S. figures have jumped...
...printed the first edition of the Catholic Worker, proclaiming this gospel from headquarters in the kitchen of her apartment. Next came the implementation: hospices or "houses of hospitality" for the dispossessed, the Workers' School, the farm communes. By 1935 the circulation of the Catholic Worker had risen from 2,500 to 110,000. By 1937 the hospices were feeding a thousand...