Word: risen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Americans. But they're not alone. A report in the September issue of Hypertension, which was published last week, shows that blood-pressure readings among the largely white residents of affluent neighborhoods in Minnesota are 5% higher than they were just 10 years ago. And as those figures have risen, the number of people with hypertension who are aware of their condition has fallen...
...introduced a bill, now pending in the California legislature, that would make it tougher for drivers 75 and older to renew their license. The "Brandi Jo" bill is just one attempt to cope with a mounting public-health concern. Since 1987, fatal crashes involving drivers 70 and older have risen 42%, to some 4,928 in 1997. In 20 years, the number of 70-plus drivers will have ballooned to 30 million, and highway-safety experts warn that the number of people killed in crashes involving elderly motorists is likely to surpass the drunk-driving death toll. While...
...there?s one word Wall Street loves these days, it?s "tame." That?s the best way to describe Tuesday?s report that the Consumer Price Index had risen a reasonable 0.3 percent in July (and an even more reasonable 0.2 percent excluding volatile food and energy prices). The morning news sparked a comfortable little rally based on a comfortable little assumption: When the Fed meets on August 24, Alan Greenspan will nudge up interest rates by a quarter point, and just a quarter point. "If you look at the general slope of the numbers, it?s apparent that inflation...
...stocks tumble? In retrospect, it seems clear that as they were hitting their highs, speculation had taken over. The average Net stock had risen 475% in the previous six months. Internet initial public offerings were routinely doubling and tripling on the first trade. A pullback was in order...
...which a supposedly gay soldier was bludgeoned to death in his barracks. And if that was a relatively isolated incident, there?s plenty of argument over whether the "Don?t ask, don?t tell" policy has made the situation better of worse. Discharges due to sexual orientation have risen every year since its implementation, from a low of 617 in 1994 to 1,145 last year. Pentagon officials respond that the increase is due instead to voluntary declarations of homosexuality by men and women who simply wanted to get out of the military, and claim that investigative abuses...