Word: rising
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Beginning last spring, Beijing mandated a new push to decontrol the prices of such commodities as popular-brand cigarettes and liquor. Prices were allowed to rise from artificially low levels, often set as far back as the 1950s, to whatever the market would bear. But the plan covered only about half of all commodity prices. The rest, including those of such agricultural staples as rice and other grains, have generally remained fixed under the old rules. This two-tier approach has led to some economic absurdities: farmers, for example, must buy fertilizer at high, decontrolled prices but sell their grain...
...solution is to open up new markets, not discourage production. With sufficient markets, the market price would rise to the level of the floor, and the cost of price supports would diminish. In 1979, when market prices were near the floor, price supports cost the U.S. less than $3 billion. In 1986, market prices were so depressed that the cost of support payments grew to more than $25 billion...
...overweight high school history teacher, endures hissing disdain from the audience--all for the sake of his family, his students and comedy. Romeo (Mark Rydell), the self-concerned club manager, tries to prod and cajole his comics to the top. These characters are left behind as Steven and Lilah rise closer to success, and we feel their disappointment and their dogged perseverance...
...emergence of China and South Korea as athletic powers mirrors their rise as international powers. All you had to do to glimpse South Korea's changed status was take a peak behind Bryant Gumbel on NBC. Seoul is as modern as New York...
ALTHOUGH I am white and middle-class, I grew up not far from the all-Black Robert Taylor Homes in Chicago, one of the first and largest high-rise housing projects in the nation. My family would have to drive by them when we left our neighborhood to shop, and I was always frightened by the mysterious, ghost-town atmosphere that hung over the homes. As I grew older, I learned to be frightened by the stories of drugs, gangster wars and filthy conditions told to me by friends who had friends in the projects and by the evening news...