Word: rising
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...definition of 'new activism' has blurred,as students' more conciliatory tactics merge intocooperation with University officials. The trendis not new; it may have begun with the 1969occupation of University Hall, which gave rise tostudent-faculty committees with an open channel toCollege administrators. But Jewett says thetendency toward persuasion reaches ever greatersophistication...
Savoye attributed the rise in Stanford applications to the same factors, saying, "L.A. Law, [the stock market crash on] October 19 and all of the interest in the Bork and Ginsburg [Supreme Court confirmation] hearings made students more interested in the legal profession...
While the U.S. State Department routinely affirms its support for Lebanon's indpendence, Syrian influence in the war-battered country is considered preferable to the rise of Iranian sponsored Islamic fundamentalists believed to hold U.S. and other foreign hostages there...
...high school citizenship citation, but there is an easy and equitable racial mix among thrashers. Rivalry seems to occur along geographical, not blood, lines. Eastern skateboarders smart about skateboarding's being seen as another sunny fad from Southern California, while the folks on the West Coast tend to rise above the controversy -- smoothly, natch -- as if they were crackin' an Ollie (standing on the board and bouncing straight into the air) over a large fire hydrant...
Raisa Gorbachev projects a fresh image of her country' s female ideal, but the reality is far less glamorous. Although equal under the law, women in the U. S. S. R. are in many respects second- class citizens. Now Mikhail Gorbachev' s reforms are giving rise to hopes for change. -- The Soviet First Lady turns heads abroad and keeps tongues wagging at home...