Word: rising
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...resulting gap in astronomical research will soon be filled by ten U.S. universities, the European Southern Observatory agency and a joint British-Australian group, which have started building three 146-to 150-inch telescopes in southern latitudes this year. A U.S. telescope costing about $10 million will rise at Cerro Tololo in the Chilean Andes, 300 miles north of Santiago. A European instrument will be placed on nearby La Silla Mountain. In Australia, a $12.3 million instrument is slated for Siding Spring Mountain, 200 miles from Sydney...
...Arnold R. Weber puts it, "Now that the unions are able to get to the bargaining table, the pickings are not so succulent." As a result, adds Assistant Labor Secretary James Reynolds, "management resistance is growing stronger at the same time that labor demands are going up. This gives rise to a certain disquietude...
Other dodges may soon be needed. Along with the continuing increase in air travel comes an impressive rise in complaints over lost, bashed-up or misdirected baggage. U.S. carriers last year hauled 176 million pieces of luggage, and lost or mishandled a mere...
...Retail sales, becalmed since last September, rose briskly during June at a dozen major chains. Sears, Roebuck and J. C. Penney both announced an 8% sales gain for the month, while Interstate Department Stores, with 107 outlets in 83 cities, experienced a 14% rise in volume. The increases spread across many fields. Sales of the Grand Union grocery chain rose 9%, those of the Walgreen drug chain 15%, those of the S. S. Kresge variety chain...
...would like to see a series of articles on the rise and fall of the Ming Dynasty," replied Fairbank...