Word: rising
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...1970s women's liberation movement, our generation was the first to be educated in classrooms that sought to equalize the situation for genders. Harvard is the ultimate step on this educational continuum, the ultimate sign that women can achieve as much as men. But if women here do not rise to the top in a rate commensurate with men, then it becomes that much harder to compete after graduation...
...left out at Christmas, but not this year. For just $39.95 they can receive a handy miniature (5-in. length, 2-in. diameter) calculator that displays the time, the date and, at the push of a button, an up-to-the-second tally of the national debt (programmed to rise by $8,000 a second from a base of $2.35 trillion on Oct. 1, 1987). Says inventor Warren Dennis, a Pasadena, Calif., tinkerer and punster: "Maybe when people see the national debt like this, right in front of them, they'll take an interest in the issue." He promises...
Making them work with first-generation Mexican Americans who speak little English and are wary of Government poses a particular challenge. "What we are telling people," says the nun, "is that the system has failed and you must rise to fill the gap. Your vote makes a difference. You must organize...
...situation, but also because the bond market and the dollar did not crash along with stocks. One does not have to be a prophet of doom and gloom to sketch a possible downside scenario despite current strong economic statistics. With the trade deficit still high, inflation on the rise, no resolution to Third World debt problems and no decisive action on the federal budget deficit, we could see another steep decline of the dollar, a spurt in interest rates, a break in bond prices and a new plunge in the stock market. Major securities firms could have their capital seriously...
There are strong arguments for both sides. Charting Rosenthal's rise at the Times from campus stringer at the City College of New York, Goulden provides a harsh account of his subject's personal life, including his prolonged extramarital affair with actress Katharine Balfour, whom, says Goulden, he promised to marry but eventually abandoned. Still, Fit to Print is at times as sympathetic as it is damning. Goulden clearly shares many of Rosenthal's conservative political views, and the author provides a sensitive account of the editor's painful childhood, during which Rosenthal lost his father and three sisters...