Word: rising
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...report suggests that as physicians become more involved in smoking therapy, success rates may rise. In the past, inadequate supervision and counselling have undermined the efficacy of this type of treatment for smokers...
...order to remove themselves from the social catastrophe that had been created by the rise of open admissions and financial aid, the well-to-do students looked to their parents' yacht clubs for a solution. Enter the Harvard final clubs...
...Airaldi and his character are the best thing that the 139th Hasty Pudding Theatricals has to offer, several other performers rise above the material as well...
...controversy over feeding tubes, said J. Stuart Showalter, of CHA's legal department, is becoming one of the most perplexing ethical issues of the 1980s and '90s. Declared he: "Emotions rise, rhetoric becomes strident, and even among the experts there is no consensus." The problem is especially thorny for Roman Catholic institutions, because many right-to-lifers are demanding new laws against what they see as killing by "starvation." Aiming occasional barbs at the strict pro-life stance, most of those who met in Boston insisted that Catholic tradition accepts an end to feeding in medically hopeless cases...
...from Renault, which owns 46.1% of AMC. A new element of uncertainty was injected into that relationship when Renault Chairman Georges Besse was killed by terrorists last November in Paris. His replacement, Raymond Levy, has said nothing about unloading AMC, but speculation about a possible sale may start to rise as a result of his meeting with Chrysler Chairman Lee Iacocca in New York City earlier this month...