Word: rising
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...eighth consecutive year, the costs of attending college are likely to rise faster than inflation, higher education officials said yesterday...
Several of the nation's leading universities have already announced price hikes for the 1988-89 school year. Total charges at Columbia University will rise to $18,132, a 5 percent jump over last year's figure. The University of Chicago will raise its tuition by 6.7 percent to $12,930, Princeton will up its tuition by 6.6 percent to $13,380, and fees at Brown will increase by 6.9 percent...
Thirty years have passed since Van Cliburn, that apple pie-fed Texan, conquered Moscow in the first Tchaikovsky competition, which required performance of the concerto. Since then, with the rise in competitions' importance, the work has become one of the most overplayed of all repertoire staples. The passion and fervor of the work, which seemed so wild and new in 1875, can strike the jaded modern ear as overworn and even vacuous...
...started a program to control Medicare costs by setting formulas for maximum payments based on estimated costs of procedures and treatments. Since then data collected on actual costs indicate, say health- budget experts, that payment schedules could be reduced by 7%. Payments would still rise with inflation, but the one-time adjustment would save about $5 billion...
With three trips left to the mountain, regal Zurbriggen expects to rise again. On the Games' penultimate night, Figure Skater Katarina Witt will look to become the queen. At an audience that attracted the most notetakers of the week, the East German champion told her sweet stories in English and German: "I started skating when I was five years old, and my mummy went to the rink with me, and the coach put skates on me. It was quite wet on the ice . . . My mummy said, if I fall, my tights are going to get wet. So maybe that...