Word: rising
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sharply rising number of American professionals. In all kinds of settings across the U.S., from country houses to suburban high-rise apartments, more and more people need only take a few steps from their breakfast tables to their desks to start a day's work. Of course, working at home for pay has been around for as long as women have taken in knitting, doctors have put up shingles on their houses and writers have set up typewriters in their dens. But the advent of personal computers and other advanced technology has vastly expanded the range of occupations that...
...school needs a new campus to accomodate the rise in its number of students. It has proved difficult for the school to expand while keeping its current location in Boston's Back Bay area. AMHERST...
Students at Georgetown University were warned this week about the dangers of alcohol and drug abuse during the school's annual Alcohol Awareness Week, but they said that despite the program and a recent rise in the drinking age, they are drinking as much as ever...
This is not to suggest that Lie's characters are two-dimensional. Much of the credit for keeping them three-dimensional, though, belongs to the actors, all of whom are excellent. Kudos especially to Gunn, who makes convincing Beth's slow, painful rise from vegetabledom after her beating, and to Schwartz, whose authentic Texas drawl steals the show...
...renewed confidence in Europe, however, a few strains of Europessimism linger. Europeans realize that in the mid-1980s their exports to the U.S. received a mighty boost from the rise in the value of the dollar, which made imports less expensive for American consumers and businesses. Now that the dollar has taken a dive, Europe's export industries are feeling pressure once again. Another concern is sluggish investment. Despite healthy earnings, many of Europe's companies are not devoting enough money to modernizing and expanding factories. Instead, firms are stashing cash in high- yielding money-market securities or buying...