Word: rising
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...land remains flat on both sides of the river beyond Matamoros. The first small hills rise in Starr County, west of McAllen, Texas. The moon darts in and out of clouds driven by a strong wind as Border Patrol officers Leo Laurel and Juan Trevino sit in the blacked-out cab of their Chevrolet Suburban. "They choose their sheriffs and deputies by the pound around here," jokes Trevino when asked why the police do not make more drug busts in one of the most important marijuana and cocaine importation routes in the country. "If an officer doesn't grab...
...them to the days of their last good war. The election of 1960 was the end of America's postwar political order and the beginning (starting 1,110 days later) of a long, tumbling historical free fall (assassinations, riots, Viet Nam, Watergate, oil embargoes, hostages in Iran, the economic rise of the Pacific Rim nations, on and on -- glasnost, China) that has created an utterly new world and left America searching for its place therein...
...RISE OF TELEVISION
...Madame is a cacophony of jangling bracelets and coquettish demands -- just the sort of acting that wins Oscars. Schlesinger's direction suits his star, with visual metaphors as subtle as a wrecking ball against a London house. Down goes the old world of nattering gentility; up comes the high-rise of Third World aspirations...
...average age of the U.S. population continues to rise, the future for adult education seems bright. "I could easily go to school for the rest of my life," says Chatham student Bobbi Hill, 38, who flunked out of college the first time around but is now on her way to a degree in history and philosophy. In the decades to come, colleges are gambling that millions of adults will share her enthusiasm...