Word: rising
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Most of the people who rise to the top in Cambridge politics have lived here all their lives. They succeed because they have known from childhood how the city works and how their neighborhood thinks...
Students' use of drugs has devastated the American school system, Doyle said. But he added that when "drugs tend to rise, then social revulsion causes their use to decline...
...politics of 1969 were ripe with promise. The promise that a freer, more equal society was about to be born. The efforts to make America extend its promises of liberty and justice to women, minorities and the poor. The promise that a younger generation could rise up and present an alternative direction for the nation...
According to lobbyists for the hospital industry, the state has reneged on a promise to send $139 million to Massachusetts hospitals. Health care advocates said that the number could rise to as high as $214 million by the end of next fiscal year...
Thus the time has come to get tough about conservation. The first step should be an immediate increase in the federal gasoline tax. Each 1 cents rise would discourage unnecessary driving and add $1 billion to the U.S. Treasury, part of which could in turn be used to develop nonfossil energy sources. The second obvious step is to raise the auto industry's fuel-economy requirements. That, says Ohio Senator Howard Metzenbaum, "could save twice the amount of oil in the Prince William Sound spill every...