Word: rising
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trade turnaround was a long time coming, but there are finally some signs of change. Between 1982 and 1986, the value of Japanese exports jumped from $138 billion to $211 billion, partly because of the yen's 50% rise against the dollar. In 1986 alone, Japan's trade surplus rose 79% from the previous year. But last spring it began to come down. By July the surplus was nearly 15% lower than the same month the year before. Meanwhile imports, spurred by growing domestic demand for ever cheaper foreign goods, were up 30% in August, compared with that month...
NATION: Gulf tensions rise as the U. S. and Iran clash again in a shootout...
...scared of." But at the end of his song, Reed concludes that "You've got to fight/To make what's right/You've got to fight/To keep your legendary love." Likewise, in his last line Springsteen declares, "You've got to learn to live with what you can't rise above if you want to ride on down in through this tunnel of love...
...these songs. The title cut suggests an amusement-park romp but ends with the kind of lyric reflection that is perfectly plainspoken and impossible to shake: "The house is haunted and the ride gets rough/ And you've got to learn to live with what you can't rise above/ If you want to ride on down in through this tunnel of love." Raymond Carver, take a turn around the floor with Chuck Berry...
...really has had more of an effect on Americans' lives -- a major military blow like Pearl Harbor or some subtler event like the spread of television? Pearl Harbor or the automobile? Pearl Harbor or the computer? Pearl Harbor or the building of the welfare state? Pearl Harbor or the rise and fall of cheap energy? Pearl Harbor or the birth control pill...