Word: rising
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hard to keep track of all the user names, passwords and other IDs required in the information age. But more Americans are discovering that it can be costly to lose control of these and other bits of personal data. Incidents of identity fraud are on the rise, with criminals stealing credit-card and Social Security numbers to rack up $750 million in charges in 1997, the General Accounting Office reported last week. The House and Senate are working on bills to stamp out the crime. In the meantime, check your credit report and disclose vital statistics only if absolutely necessary...
...this immense step in evolution, so brutal and so overwhelming, we burn our bridges and break with the past." He meant it. There were to be no more congested streets and sidewalks, no more bustling public squares, no more untidy neighborhoods. People would live in hygienic, regimented high-rise towers, set far apart in a parklike landscape. This rational city would be separated into discrete zones for working, living and leisure. Above all, everything should be done on a big scale--big buildings, big open spaces, big urban highways...
Taken together, these statistics suggest that the rise in pre-professional student groups is not due to an increased interest in business, but to a greater student pre-occupation with future prospects...
...Huang's rise to celebrity status began accidentally. At age 12 a vitamin company came to her school looking for children of Chinese descent to appear in a print advertisement; Huang was selected. While doing that job, the coordinator of the project told her she should look into modeling professionally. Huang did, and has been at it ever since...
...believe this season was a ground-breaking season in many aspects," Mosley said. "It marks Coach Weiss's first All-American, and more importantly, the rise of the entire team. This young team will only get better with its great work ethic and its plans for off-season training...