Word: rising
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...complaints rise that the Japanese are cheating on the deal, the semiconductor pact is in danger of unraveling. Moreover, a panel of experts investigating the military's chip supplies has concluded in a report to the Pentagon that only major Government intervention can save the U.S. chipmakers. The report recommends that the Defense Department invest some $2 billion over the next five years for research and development in chip-building technology. Says Martin Marietta President Norman Augustine, who chaired the advisory panel: "If we don't do this or something akin to this, the U.S. semiconductor industry will...
...anyone who watched only the Dow Jones industrial average last week would have been unlikely to sense that history's biggest stock scandal was unfolding. Opening after a three-day weekend, the Dow jumped 54.14 points on Tuesday alone, a record rise for a single session. It set an all-time high of 2244.09 on Thursday before slipping back to close the week at 2235.24. The market's reaction was in direct contrast to its performance after the Boesky revelations last November, when it plunged briefly as investors dumped speculative takeover stocks. This time, big institutions and foreign investors evidently...
...Tarkanian)) runs a straight deal," he says firmly, "and the whole community is protective of it." Betting on UNLV games is not only illegal, it appears to be that rarest thing in town, immoral. "If a player so much as walked into a casino," Williams declares, "everyone would rise up and say, 'No, no, uh-uh, forget it.' I mean, just the idea of it is offensive. That's like our one normal thing: college basketball. The word would get back to Tark in about seven minutes...
...inflation exploded, the government faced a barrage of protests. In response, Sarney decided to oust the president of Brazil's central bank, Fernando Bracher, who was under criticism for letting interest rates rise too high. His replacement was Francisco Gros, an economist trained at Columbia University and a friend of Finance Minister Funaro's. The appointment of Gros strengthened Funaro's grip on financial policy, but the minister has yet to convince foreign bankers that he has a viable program for straightening out the economy...
...misunderstanding and misogyny reach such deplorable heights? Dijkstra offers conflicting scapegoats. One is the rise of industrial capitalism, which made such physical and moral demands that men fled, exhausted, to the image of woman as "priestess of virtuous inanity." The other, which explains the failure of such canonization, is the spread of Darwinism and the quack argument that women remained at a more primitive stage of evolution. As Darwin himself put it, "Man has ultimately become superior to woman...