Word: rising
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prize in this mythic Southern battle--a whopping 2000 plus delegates and a chance to lock up the Democratic and Republican nominations. And beyond that a chance for the South to rise again. Said to say, none of this will happen...
...police provide squad-car escorts, but they cannot follow every bus. Besides, they often become targets themselves. Bottles are routinely hurled at patrol cars, and a shopping cart, an automobile transmission and even a refrigerator have been heaved out of high-rise windows, narrowly missing the cruisers. The Guardian Angels have taken to patrolling the buses, but drivers complain that the red-bereted figures make them a more attractive target. On the Guardians' first bus patrol two weeks ago, Founder Curtis Sliwa and his squad hit the deck along with terrified passengers when a lead pipe smashed through a window...
...American officials go further, laying the entire blame for their drug problems on the U.S. "If there wasn't any demand in the U.S.," says Colombian Justice Minister Enrique Low Murtra, "it wouldn't be grown and produced here." U.S. officials counter that it is illegal production that gives rise to consumption. But such finger pointing, satisfying as it might be, is increasingly hollow. While the U.S. is without question the world's biggest market for narcotics, some of the drug-exporting countries are developing a taste for the goods. In Colombia, Peru and Bolivia, consumption of basuco...
Proxmire also cited criticism of the Fed in the Economic Report of the - President issued two weeks ago, which was prepared under the direction of Beryl Sprinkel, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers. The report contends that overly tight Fed policies resulting in a rise in interest rates last year were partly responsible for the October stock-market crash...
Even in the most determined of America's carnivorous strongholds, '80s-style vegetarianism is on the rise. About 8 million Americans, from Rock Star Madonna to television's Mr. Rogers, now call themselves vegetarians. Vegetarian Times magazine, based in Oak Park, Ill., claims that fully 2 million of them have gone over to vegetarianism since 1985. The publication, which features Vegetarian Actor River Phoenix on its current cover, has seen its circulation double in the past two years to 150,000. Untold other Americans are aspiring vegetarians or semivegetarians who indulge in some chicken and fish. The new Vegetarian Times...