Word: rising
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Schelling's story paints a revealing picture of the young Mike Spence--the 40-year-old wunderkind who became dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences after a rapid rise in Harvard'sEconomics Department...
Honecker's most likely successors, veteran Politburo members Egon Krenz, 52, and Gunter Mittag, 62, who have been filling in for him at public ceremonies, are at least as conservative. The rise of either of them to the top job would mean no change from the present course. "They are signaling that the old line is the right line for the future," says Fred Oldenburg, senior analyst at the Federal Institute for East European and International Studies in Cologne...
...created his legendary Mahagonny, that "City of Nets" where every pleasure is for sale, he neglected to specify exactly where it was. It was originally thought to be the Nazi-threatened Berlin of the 1920s, but the libretto that he wrote for Kurt Weill's most ambitious opera, The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (1930), seems to be set on a wildly imaginary Florida Gold Coast. But to Jonathan Miller, the gifted British director who was commissioned to stage a new Mahagonny at the enterprising, young Los Angeles Music Center Opera, there could be only one locale...
When the College Board released its annual cost survey showing that private school tuitions would rise an average of 9% this fall, Kellie Kenner raced for her calculator. Since the 20-year-old junior entered Emory University two years ago, her total bill, including tuition, has jumped from $13,900 to $16,100, an increase of almost 16%. Despite a patchwork quilt of aid that includes scholarships, loans and an on-campus job, Kenner's father, a train conductor, must now pay $6,000 out of pocket to send his daughter to school this year -- $2,000 more than...
...woman in a San Juan high-rise told a radio station she watched sections of the city darken as the first high winds and heavy rains hit San Juan. Widespread power outages also were reported in the Dominican Republic...