Word: risen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hall's class, Economics 1444, is extremely popular among economics concentrators. Hall has taught the course for two years, during which the enrollment has risen from 180 students to about 300 this year...
...tobacco stocks have been smoking lately, you'd think the Surgeon General had just discovered that it's the paper, not what's wrapped inside, that makes cigarettes deadly. In just five months, shares of the nation's biggest tobacco company, Philip Morris (Marlboro), have risen 47% while shares of No. 2, RJR Nabisco (Winston, Camel), have jumped 39%. Sure, the industry just won a slew of important court cases. But that's hardly news. Big Tobacco has been snuffing out liability claims in the courts for decades. What's new is a persistent buzz that some kind of deal...
...members remained stable. Graduate students and adjunct faculty increasingly shouldered the load, while professional counselors and administrators and their retinues of support staff took over tasks once within a professor's job description. In 1970 the number of full-time university employees was 12,155; by 1993 it had risen to 15,706. Yet the number of undergrads, with the exception of my class and a few others, changed little...
Despite such pressures, Meyerson managed to restrain Penn's tuition increases. By 1980 Penn's base tuition was $5,270, more than double the cost a decade earlier, but inflation had risen at roughly the same rate. So had median family income. If tuition was higher, so was America's ability...
...charges for the past two years, taking advantage of new efficiencies in residential and food-service operations. But the costs of providing a premium education--everything from complying with new federal regulations to keeping up with changes in automation--have skyrocketed, she says. Even the expense of data has risen sharply. An online index of physics abstracts, for example, costs Penn $50,400 a year; when the index was just a series of books, it cost $7,748. "None of us anticipated it," says Rodin. "When it's electronic, we're charged for every...