Word: rising
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chapter entitled, "Order, Hierarchy and Culture," Levine argues that the ideas of "high-brow" and "low-brow" came out of a complicated mesh of modern changes: immigration, and the culturally isolated communities of the "hyphenated-Americans"; the rise of a corporate culture, which linked art appreciation to social status; and changing attitudes toward etiquette and art, which severely restricted the behavior of the audience in "high" artistic shows, and insisted that Shakespeare could share the stage with no other production...
...Harvard women's ice hockey team has proven on numerous occasions this year that it can rise to any challenge...
...time when our government is on the rise,we can be as involved in our government as we wantto be--nobody can shut us out," Lewis said...
...disturbing implication is that AIDS is becoming a disease of the disadvantaged. Blacks and Hispanics make up a disproportionate 40% of all AIDS cases, and that percentage is sure to rise. Says Dr. Harold Jaffe, chief epidemiologist in the AIDS division of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta: "The evening-news segments about AIDS used to show gay men walking hand in hand down a San Francisco street. Now it may be appropriate to show the black child in Harlem...
...Another decline theorist, Mancur Olson, laid out the case in his 1982 classic The Rise and Decline of Nations. Olson showed that mature societies start to decline when layers of powerful special-interest groups -- inefficient producers, inflexible unions, governmental bureaucracies -- succeed in impeding the normal "creative destruction" of capitalism. In order to hold on to what they have, they stave off change. But in the end, the whole society pays for the accumulated obsolescences and inefficiencies. The result is decline...