Word: rising
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most important cause of the trouble is the 17-month rise of the yen against the dollar, which has hurt Japanese exporters. In response, Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone's proposed fiscal-1987 budget, calls for increased public spending and a one-year emergency program to develop jobs for 300,000 workers, or 16.5% of those who are unemployed...
Siracuse is certainly not the only student at Harvard to receive a strip-a-gram. In fact, managers at Cambridge's Rated R Telegrams said the number of strip-a-gram requests from Harvard students has been on the rise...
...brilliant young mathematician named Org discovered that laying branches over the pit was the answer. Although this method of warfare soon became obsolete--in the early 1900s the Russians officially banned us from going into their country and digging these dangerous pits--the demand for additional weaponry continued to rise steadily...
...stuffed-shirt Lawyer (Seth Sanders) whom she later marries, and a flighty Poet (Mark Karnow), all of whom are knowingly trapped within their limited existence as men. She becomes a sexual object, wife and mother--all of the everyday trappings of human femininity--before she is allowed to rise up and rejoin the gods...
...worried about the rise of MTV, the spread of drugs, the power of media, and Reagan's amnesia, allow yourself a purging experience by diving into Pete Davies dark and witty vision of our degenerate future. Even if it doesn't convince you to stop sucking in mind-destroying pop culture stimulants, The Last Election will keep you off the drunken highways...