Word: rising
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Funds for Pell grants, which are given to the most needy students, will rise by 17 percent to $4.5 billion under the bill approved by the Senate Appropriations Committee this week...
Funds for Guaranteed Student Loans--the largestfederal loan program--would rise by $219 millionto $2.94 billion and College Work-Study wouldreceive an increase of similar proportions underthe Senate bill...
After years of scorn for singer/songwriters--the "sensitive" kind like James Taylor and Dan Fogelberg--the public seems to be picking up again on the pleasures of direct address, of music without synthesizers. Witness the rise of "folk heroes" Suzanne Vega and Billy Bragg. In fact, the Boston-area acoustic music scene is now so competitive and professional that there's little room for newcomers. One more good reason to encourage the further activities of this group...
...guard bangs on iron doors, rousing Begun and some 25 others in the prison's political wing. They must rise or risk punishment...
...frame to thwart a knife attack on Pope Paul VI in Manila. The Archbishop was once thought to be on the Vatican fast track, but after the Ambrosiano affair his rapid career advancement came to a stop. He was not named a Cardinal as anticipated and did not rise to become President of Vatican City, another post that he was expected to receive. He has not been the advance man on papal trips since...