Word: rising
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...time when it was the rise of theblack power movement," Schneider says. "There wasa very strong sense of trying to establish a[black] identity...
Forbes magazine attributed Decherd's success to this. In a profile of the rising media mogul earlier this year, they found that Belo's revenues rise when local viewer loyalty rises. This is because networks take a 75 percent cut on advertisement revenues for national programming while ad money from local news goes directly to Belo...
...dispensedeither from a tea pot or a tea kettle, I was notprepared for the samovar used at formal teas. Whenmy turn came to pour, I was horrified to discoverthat moving the lever right or left failed to stemthe tide of tea. Just as my first poured cup wasabout to rise over the top, a dean rushed over andpushed the lever to the shut-off position in themiddle. This information has subsequently been ofno use to me whatsoever...
...cheaper, Klein must have held out at least faint hopes that Gates would renounce enough of his most egregious practices to let them both declare victory and go home. Unfortunately for all concerned (with the exception of Microsoft enemies like Netscape and Sun Microsystems, whose stock prices should rise with delight at their rival's newly bogged-down circumstance), the opposing parties' definitions of which practices were "egregious" and which remedies constituted "enough" turned out to be hopelessly divergent...
...jets into Southern California from New Jersey on a Friday midnight. By Monday morning he must be back at his doorman post in downtown Manhattan. But meantime, as he steps forward to give a speech here at Whittier Law School, some 200 attorneys, historians, journalists and government officials rise to applaud. An elderly lady grasps his hand, murmuring, "God bless you." A student asks for his autograph. And then, in broken English, the thin young man with oval spectacles begins, "My name is Christoph Meili. My job at the bank--I controlled peoples what come in and out. One night...