Word: risen
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...fashion activity making any difference at retail? Sales of fur coats, according to the Fur Information Commission, have risen from 1991's low of $1 billion to 1997's $1.27 billion. But this is nowhere near 1987's high of $1.8 billion. Leslie Freund, marketing director for Maximilian, which sells furs at Bloomingdale's stores, says Maximilian has had double-digit increases over the past two years, but won't divulge exact figures. While the bulk of sales continue to be of classic mink coats, Freund says a growing number of young buyers are drawn...
...Jane L. Risen '01 said advertisements that focus on the life and death issues of excessive drinking may have a greater impact on students...
...think the more effective ads are the ones with drunk driving, because they scare people," Risen said. "That's death, and not just your death but someone else...
...baiting and McCarthyism in the U.S., when communists, actual or accused, were hounded into disgrace and unemployment or jail. One of them, according to Roth's novel, was Iron Rinn, ne Ira Ringold, a gangly (6-ft. 6-in.) son of Newark who had circuitously risen, after his military service during World War II, to become a prominent radio actor in Manhattan. Ira's new fame brings rewards. He marries Eve Frame, a one-time star of silent films, then Broadway and now radio, and moves into her elegant Greenwich Village townhouse, where Sylphid, Eve's 23-year-old daughter...
...past year, Harvard has risen to meet that challenge. Last year's tuition increase is the lowest in 30 years, and its effects are compounded by last month's announcement of changes in the financial aid policy resulting in an additional $9 million annually among undergraduates...