Word: rising
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Over the same time period, Radcliffe's educational expenditures rose from $6.2 to $7.6 million, a 21.8 percent increase, a rise only one-third as rapid as that of the administrative costs...
...Some of what you are seeing as a rise in administrative expense is actually a shift in expense from the academic programs," he says. "It represents more support for the programs...
There are pain and honor in this performance, and they constantly rise up to redeem a film that is less probing, less thoughtful than its director's claims and aspirations for it. The problems with Michael Collins begin with its conventional three-act movie structure--ABC, QED. This is fine for fiction, but history, as everyone who has lived some of it knows, works more waywardly and coincidentally than that. Especially when it's in the throes of revolution...
...paper, she knitting. A child sits before them. Then through a door comes a large figure out of a Magritte painting: long overcoat, umbrella, bowler hat, no head. The child takes the creature's magic hat, puts it on--and dreams the three-hour show. The chairs, the door rise into the air. Benoit Jutras' New Agey music soars with them. A menagerie of demons and sprites glides on stage, primed to amaze. Once again, Cirque has reinvented itself...
...YORK CITY: The bubble that was supposed to burst three months ago keeps on rising. Monday, for the first time ever, the Dow Jones industrial average closed above 6,000. Despite increasing prognistications from financial advisors that stocks are overvalued and headed for a fall, the Dow continues to grow, closing Monday up 40.62 at 6,010.00. The new record came less than a year after the Dow passed the 5,000 mark. Predictions this spring were that the current bull market, at the time more than 5 1/2 years old, was due for a fall. Those fears seemed close...