Word: rising
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With 1996's yield almost four points above the benchmark, compensations can be expected to rise this year. But Meyer said that HMC suffers somewhat of a political injustice because of its efforts to save money through internal management...
...Whitney's cotton gin makes possible the rise of the antebellum South...
...index of social reality shifted from the farm and the village to the impacted, simmering cities, a distinct visual aesthetic was bound to rise from American utilitarianism. It showed itself earliest--and most dramatically--in the art where science, material and common social needs intersected: architecture. Its great expression was the iron grid, which begat the skyscraper. The technology of cast-iron joists and columns as the skeleton of a multistory building had come from Europe, but it mutated and ramified in the U.S., especially in New York City. There early architects like Daniel Badger (1806-84) popularized...
Most professional magicians scoff at Blaine's dime-store bag of tricks: making a chosen card rise out of a deck or reappear after being torn to pieces. But in magic, style is everything, and Blaine's intense, streetwise persona is nothing like your typical gabby Vegas showman in a cape. His deceptively low-key, ultracool manner leaves spectators more amazed than if he'd razzle-dazzled...
...flowers I have given them. This is an in-class writing assignment: write a page on what the flower smells like. It is an exercise in stream of consciousness for my students at Long Island University's Southampton College. The school is small and unadorned, spread out on a rise overlooking a bay; it is about to come in to flowers of its own in the reluctant spring thaw...