Word: rising
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...past dozen years has the annual budget deficit been less than 10% of GDP. By contrast, the worst U.S. ratio was 3.8% in 1983; last year it was only 1.8%. Moreover, most of Italy's debt is short to medium term, subject to volatile interest rates. A 1% rise in short-term rates costs the government 7 trillion lire ($5.1 billion) annually in extra interest...
...year-old first offenders convicted of drug or property crimes are held for three to six months. Between head shaving, close-order drills and servile work, the youthful felons are screamed and hollered at by correctional officers skilled in the art of humiliation. They are compelled to rise at dawn, eat meals in silence, speak only when spoken to ("Sir, yessir"). The hope is that the rough treatment they experience will produce a permanent "change of attitude" that will survive after the inmates are released...
Defying Muslim threats, Orthodox zealots are preparing for the day when the holy edifice will rise again. -- A jury swiftly nails fallen evangelist Jim Bakker for fraud...
...available only to impoverished patients. As a result, those infected with the AIDS virus frequently must "spend down" into poverty, demonstrating that they hold assets of less than $2,000. This low level of federal coverage portends future problems, since the number of people with AIDS continues to rise. "Federal health planners have been acting as if AIDS will go away," says Congressman Henry Waxman of California...
...proved so treacherous for foreign owners? For one thing, mergers in general are risky propositions; an estimated 50% of domestic U.S. takeovers later end in divestitures. When a foreign business attempts a long- distance marriage with a U.S. company, the obstacles to success rise even higher. One problem is the ambivalence of U.S. workers toward their foreign bosses. More than 75% of U.S. adults surveyed in a poll conducted last spring for a group of Japanese firms agreed that foreign acquisitions have boosted U.S. economic growth, employment and competitiveness. Nonetheless, nearly 75% viewed the increased foreign presence as undesirable...