Word: rising
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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First-years around the Yard said that they have noticed an increase in the number of police cars patrolling the area in the past week, especially because thefts around the neighborhood are on the rise...
...members of this year's council were elected from a record high pool of 155 candidates, a dramatic rise from last year's 114 contenders...
Signorino's dramatic rise to the top began about five years ago, when Signorino-then working toward a masters degree in history at the Extension School-initiated a meeting with King...
...PACIFIC RIM. Thanks to a long bear market in Japan and fallout from the currency crisis, this region is about as cheap as any. It is also the region with the lowest correlation to the U.S. market, meaning that stocks there could easily rise even if the U.S. market goes into a long decline. The big problem is that no one knows for sure if the current turmoil is reaching an end. Despite that, Eric Fry, president of the money-management firm Holl International in San Francisco, is jumping in with both feet...
...last week when he decided to give away $1 billion. Looking over statements prepared by his financial advisers, he noticed that his net worth had shot up from $2.2 billion to $3.2 billion between the beginning of the year and Aug. 31, largely on the strength of a 50% rise in Time Warner stock. "Hey, not bad," Turner recalls thinking at the time. "Why not go for the billion? Let's go for the big one." After bouncing the idea off his wife, Jane Fonda, over dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria ("She burst into tears" of joy, he says), Turner...