Word: rising
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...growing importance of faculty recruitment is one of the major factors behind the rise of the "scholar-practitioner" president, Ivy educators say. As a large proportion of college and university professors retire, and a smaller proportion of top undergraduates pursue academic careers, the competition for top junior faculty members will increase tremendously in the next decade...
Much of the inspiration for this democratization came from women and minority staff members who, after being shut out of the University power structure for so long, began to rise up last year, demanding across-the-board fair treatment, from secretarial union representation to discrimination lawsuits...
...change and the dangers of maintaining the status quo. A wave of strikes in Poland that closed down at least 22 enterprises employing more than 110,000 workers amounted to the most serious outbreak of unrest in Eastern Europe since the nationwide strikes eight years ago that gave rise to the now banned trade union Solidarity and ended with the imposition of martial...
...creating too many small companies for its own good? -- When cleanliness means profits. -- Food prices are on the rise...
...repressive and eccentric regimes, a situation that is worsening as Ceausescu imposes ever greater privations on his people while indulging his wild-eyed ambitions. A reckless export drive has stripped grocery shelves of staples, making Rumania the only country in Europe where hunger is widespread and malnutrition on the rise. As beggars panhandle on Bucharest's crumbling sidewalks, welding torches glow night and day at the site of a monumental government complex, part of a multibillion-dollar "modernization" program that has already flattened almost half the capital's centuries-old historic district. In the meantime, Ceausescu feeds his ego with...