Word: rising
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...would be making a mistake to raise rates, noting new trade figures showing January's overall deficit the worst since 1992. The trade gap with China alone jumped 41 percent to $3.7 billion, leading to fears that a tightening of the money supply could drive the dollar higher, making rising deficits even worse. A one-quarter point rise in rates could come as early as next Tuesday, when the Open Market Committee meets...
However, we would like to see a time when tuition, room and board does not need to rise at a higher rate than other schools. Princeton and Yale both have undergraduate total costs, including tuition, room and board, which still remain below $30,000 a year...
...world at risk by allowing stronger TB strains which weathered the initial stage of treatment to reproduce. The problem in Eastern Europe has in part been fueled by severe economic hardship since the collapse of Soviet communism in 1991. Since that year, Russia has experienced a 70 percent rise in TB cases and a 90 percent increase in TB deaths. While Western Europe currently lies on the front of a bitter outbreak the disease, WHO officials warn that in the age of jet travel, the entire world may be at risk. "Everyone who breathes air, from Wall Street...
...confronting a fiscal landscape more hostile than any they had faced in the previous quarter-century. Although I did not know it at the time, in my freshman year, 1972, Penn was emerging from a fiscal crisis. The stage was set in the '50s, when, awash in the ever rising tsunami of federal spending triggered by Sputnik's assault on the nation's pride, Penn and its peers went on a building-and-hiring binge. A surge of Great Society financial-aid money helped them expand even further. New faculty could be supported with minimal strain because the salaries were...
...been called the "Chivas Regal effect." In the '80s a new ethos evolved among university officials--and parents--that equated price with quality. A collateral force ensured that tuition would not only rise but also rise at the same rate for comparable schools. Colleges in the Ivy League have always kept close watch on one another, setting their tuition to make sure no one school became so much of a bargain that it drew the best students just on the basis of price. Less prestigious schools set their prices in relation to what the Ivies charged. Says Meyerson: "We were...