Word: rising
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...what the Alumni Association--that great coordinator of the graduates from the World's Greatest University--would have us believe. Indeed, Diane Jellis, assistant director of classes and reunions for the Alumni Association, noted when she announced the finalists that, "There were no surprises. People usually know who will rise to the surface...
Hatcher, a five-term mayor of Gary, Indiana, will be leading a study group called "Politics of Black America: The Jackson Campaign and Beyond," in which he will be tracing the rise of Blacks in American politics...
...study group, Hatcher says, he plans to look at certain watershed events in recent American history which have contributed to the rise of Blacks in politics. For example, 1967, the year in which he was elected mayor, was the year in which Blacks "moved away from the street [demonstrations] and moved towards the electoral arena," he says...
...speech entitled "Putting Crises to Work for People," Grant argued that crises, like mass poverty, usually give rise to political or scientific solutions...
Revitalization is quickly becoming a motif of the modern American metropolis. City after city is trying to rejuvenate decayed downtown and waterfront areas. Skyscrapers rise like phoenixes where factories and tenement houses once stood. In Baltimore, a decrepit harborplace was turned into a yuppie shopping and eating complex in just a few years. New York's waterfront suffered a similar facelift with the creation of South Street Seaport, a shopping plaza akin to Faneuil Hall. And the trend has spread to East Cambridge...