Word: rising
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...campus to the athletic area--only the most die-hard fans are willing to walk all the way down across the river in freezing temperatures and rain, especially those students who live in the Quad. If the shuttle ran down there more often on game nights, attendance would undoubtably rise. As it is, the long trek and the frequently bad weather are major deterrents, discouraging fans who would otherwise pack the rink or the stadium...
...Substantive issues have been crowded out of discourses on politics," Rich said. "With the rise of TV, with the enormous growth and prosperity of this country since World War II, people have less time for [news] and less interest...
...legal: what's illegal--or arguably illegal--isn't necessarily scandalous. The press's obsession with the issue of legality can be unenlightening in this way as well, and campaign finance once again is an excellent example. Republicans and journalists are frustrated by the public's failure to rise in outrage at the daily drips of evidence that Clinton Administration figures may have broken various interpretations of the law. Maybe one reason is that these laws attempting to prevent political activity by politicians in political institutions, at least as interpreted by those flogging the scandal, seem to be a strange...
...Spielberg fantasy come true, opening this week in Seattle. The 30,000-sq.-ft. arcade features a state-of-the-art fighter-plane simulator and other virtual-reality diversions, music videos, a Starbucks, a gourmet-pizza joint, a brew pub, and a floor-to-ceiling game that lets you rise 28 ft. in the air as you score hits against a bad guy called...
...July 23, 1995, Alan Hale, who has a Ph.D. in astronomy and makes his living running a research and educational company, was scanning the skies above his home in Cloudcroft, New Mexico. He was waiting for an already discovered comet to rise over his house when he trained his telescope on M70, a well-known cluster of stars in the constellation Sagittarius. "As soon as I looked," he says, "I saw a fuzzy object nearby. It was strange, because I'd looked at M70 a couple of weeks earlier and the object hadn't been there...