Word: rising
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Opportunities to invest in the minors used to be limited, since about 90% of the farm clubs were once owned and operated by the major-league teams. But by the mid-1970s, as minor-league attendance hit a low point and expenses began to rise, major-league owners began unloading the subsidiaries to local businessmen. Today less than 15% of the teams are owned by major-league clubs...
...does show that prostitutes were the propagators of a sometimes new social order. Aggressive women who had no need to respond to social mores, they offended the male dominated society and led the way, more often than not, for the rise of the women in the French towns...
THEY predicted that the South would rise again. Who would have thought that a liberal-easterner would have been the one to bring the South back to prominence. But it's pretty obvious that the Democrats, following Democratic presidential nominee Gov. Michael S. Dukakis' cue, went after the Southern vote. After viewing the Democratic convention, it would only make sense for the Republicans to follow the Democrats in wooing the South...
Michael Dukakis tries to unite his party and define its postliberal soul. -- Confounding oddsmakers and stiff- arming Jesse Jackson, the Duke picks Texan Lloyd Bentsen as his running mate. -- Garry Wills on the rise of the moral manager. -- Calvin Trillin rediscovers Atlanta. -- Mimi Sheraton samples the city' s culinary charms. See NATION...
...impact will soon be felt at the supermarket, but it may not be too severe. The USDA estimates that retail food prices will rise no more than 5% this year. One reason: much of this year's grain shortfall will be made up from stocks set aside during past bountiful harvests...