Word: rising
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...James Curran, director of the AIDS program at the federal Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta. Today, thanks to a widespread education campaign and safer sex, the rate of new infection among gays has dropped dramatically. But naturally the number of infected people who fall ill continues to rise. As a result, among gays, the ratio of carriers to cases is now 20 to 1. Says Curran: "As the epidemic ages, the ratio will get smaller...
...federal budget deficit, $150 billion last year. By reducing taxes while increasing spending, the Reagan Administration has put money into consumers' pockets. And although the U.S. is fighting no wars, Reagan's military buildup has been highly stimulative. Ordinarily, a deficit so large might lead to a steep rise in interest rates that would crimp the economy. But foreign investors and central banks have bought record amounts of U.S. securities, thus helping finance the deficit and keep interest rates under control. Explains Lester Thurow, dean of the Sloan School of Management at M.I.T.: "As long as the Government...
Brickman says he hopes to place 400 volunteers, including college students and other workers, in the city schools. This number would represent an increase from even the 380 that were placed in the "golden era" of community service in 1974-5, he says. Volunteer involvement has been on the rise since a low of 170 placements in 1981, Brickman says...
Then came, out of nowhere, nostalgia -- including nostalgia for things the nostalgia lovers were too young to know. That mood gave rise to the first of the feature films in 1978, and suddenly Superman was soaring again. And this time, when Christopher Reeve waved his arms and pointed his heroic chin upward, he really seemed to take off over Metropolis. "Honest to God, I was disappointed by the flying," Reeve says of the TV version that he had seen as a boy. "I remember thinking, 'He's got to be lying on a glass table.' I wanted him to really...
...meander aimlessly through the audience, pretending not to notice a love song being performed above them. The clatter of actors fumbling with props on the upper level disrupts speech on the lower level. In the final scene, most of the dialogue crucial to the resolution of the plot cannot rise above the noise of stomping feet, as the actors chase each other all over the stage...