Word: rising
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After the January inflation report, which included a 0.6 percent rise in the Consumer Price Index, the largest in two years, many economists dismissed it as at least a partial aberration and predicted only a moderate 0.4 climb in February...
Student choice was on the rise, however. In 1959, 66 percent of freshmen gained entrance to their top choice. In 1965, the last year of this process, 70 percent received their first choice...
...ninth consecutive year, University officials have announced a tuition hike that exceeds inflation. Undergraduate fees for tuition, room and board and health charges will rise by 6.5 percent to $19,135. At this rate, a graduate of the Harvard Class of 2000 will have paid well over $100,000 for a college education, which will take up a larger part of a family's real income than it does...
...Greece with his wife and four children. A year later, in 1980, the U.S. formally charged him with stealing $40,000. In the years that followed, Koskotas traveled back and forth numerous times to America, always unaware he was under indictment, he claims. Long after, the incident would rise up to haunt...
Considering that it represents a reversal of centuries of black subordination, the rise of the black manager has been accomplished with remarkably little upheaval. But not without some strain. African Americans who have risen through affirmative-action plans can face resentment from white underlings. Some white subordinates fret over whether black bosses will favor other blacks. And the stories are common among black managers of white employees who ceaselessly buck their authority or who go over their heads to complain to higher-placed whites...