Word: rising
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...George Bush that presaged his march to the White House. And a TIME poll taken after the stock-market crash of 1987 showed that contrary to cries of financial doom, most Americans did not think Wall Street's woes really affected them much. Last week, when we profiled the rise of television-news stars, the editors found it useful to survey their relative importance to the public...
...grumbling has been kept to a minimum. The blow has been softened by a rise of more than 100% in wages in the past twelve months; with too much money chasing too few goods, large amounts of cash are waiting to be soaked up. Moreover, workers and pensioners will be cushioned from the impact of diminishing subsidies by cost of living adjustments. Still, consumer stoicism is likely to evaporate quickly if the new market policy fails to improve supplies of foodstuffs and prices continue to rise...
...hardly a new phenomenon in TV news: Murrow, Walter Cronkite, and Huntley and Brinkley were certainly as popular as any of % the current luminaries. But salaries and network bidding wars entered a new phase in 1976, when Arledge lured Walters away from NBC for $1 million a year. The rise of superagents like Richard Leibner (who represents Sawyer, Rather, Shriver and Mike Wallace, among other network news stars) has brought about an escalation of salaries and an increase in the clout these personalities wield...
...resisted, still bound by tradition, faction loyalty and a determination not to relinquish power. In a seeming capitulation to the young, however, the party agreed at week's end to leave the selection of a new leader to a party vote, rather than the back-room politicking that gave rise to leaders like Uno. "Our defeat was caused by the public's distrust of us," said party elder Takami Eto. "We must now rebuild that trust by operating more in the open...
...course, the Duke could rise from the ashes and make another run at the White House. Stranger things have happened...