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...example, Public Agenda—an organization that researches public opinion—found that approval of interracial marriage has risen dramatically since the civil rights era: from a mere 6 percent of the public approving in 1958 to 73 percent in 2003. Public support for abortion rights increased rapidly in the decade before the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, according to the University of Chicago’s General Social Survey. Since then, support for legal abortion has remained stable at a fairly high level, according to a survey from the University of Michigan’s National Election...
...production was growing 20% a year while operating costs were less than half those of the biggest U.S. firms, including ExxonMobil, Chevron and Conoco. With Yukos mired in political trouble, its production gains have ceased. But its five-year run has borne fruit: since 1998, Russian oil production has risen back to more than 9 million bbl. per day, and according to independent estimates, Yukos is single-handedly responsible for more than a third of that increase...
...Earlier on in my career I would’ve said 100-plus yards and scoring a touchdown or two would have been a really good game,” Dawson says. “But now as my individual stats have risen, I kind of expect to have those kinds of games. Anything lower than 200 or 250 yards I don’t get as excited about...
...blessed in high school with an inordinate amount of talent that you would say he would be a great Ivy League football player, or a kid that would be able to handle engineering and college athletics at a high level, but through sheer willpower and intangibles, he has risen...
...going to lie to you, when I first started working here I was surprised but now I’m not,” Liza says. Since she started at Jasmine Sola six months ago, prices of jeans have risen by $30, which still hasn’t hurt their popularity. Are kids working extra hours to buy jeans? Liza says no: “I can tell by the fact that we haven’t had many applicants here recently so I can tell it’s their parents’ money they’re spending...