Word: rising
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...necessitate a partial reversal of the Deng reforms. Small plots will have to be recombined into larger collective farms. The trick will be to rebuild communal farms without destroying the new incentives that have made individual farmers so productive. Specifically, the incomes that farmers make will have to rise with the level of production. Only by maintaining its delicate new balance between Communism and capitalism can China hope to feed its next billion people...
...bitter debate is a result of the rise of Critical Legal Studies (CLS) and, in turn, its vocal opponents at Harvard Law School. The schism between these two relatively small but intellectually agressive factions has grown wider and more public over the past few years--leading to full-fledged scholarly war during the past six months on the battlefield of tenure decisions...
...earnings: 40 cents to 55 cents a share, in contrast to 60 cents last year. It was this news that drove the stock down another 10 1/4 points last Monday. On Tuesday, when the Dow Jones industrial average climbed a record 75.23 points, the Gap managed an anemic 5/8-point rise. It closed on Friday at 36 3/4, down 10 1/2 points for the week...
...borrower is the Federal Government. During the past seven years, the U.S. has posted deficits totaling $1.1 trillion; in fiscal 1986 the red ink reached a record $221 billion. Though the deficit is expected to fall significantly this year, to some $160 billion, many economists fear it will begin rising again in 1988. The Treasury's ability to borrow so heavily depends on foreign buyers of U.S. bonds, whom the Government lures by keeping domestic interest rates at relatively high levels. If those investors were to lose confidence in the U.S. and start pulling out their money, interest rates could...
...American colleges: "There aren't many institutions anymore that have a very clear image." Futter concurs, "We are dealing with an increasingly franchised commodity. This isn't hamburgers; this is education." Finally, educational leaders are far from convinced that the women's movement has erased the prejudices that gave rise to women's colleges in the first place. "Maybe there will come a day when women and men will be able to work equally professionally across the board," says Wellesley's Keohane. "Perhaps when that day comes, our mission of educating women alone will be accomplished. I don't think...