Word: rising
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nineteen-ninety-five was by most accounts the year of the Internet. The World Wide Web exploded into people's homes, workplaces and, most notably, into student dorm rooms. With that explosion came a correlated rise in the number of sites devoted to hatred, xenophobia and racism...
That's a difficult argument to win, since Rubin's actions so far have been authorized by a statute passed while Ronald Reagan was in office. Meanwhile, with the G.O.P. budget plan itself calling for the debt to rise toward $6 trillion over seven years, a renewed debt-limit showdown can't help looking hypocritical. The Administration won't say what happens next if the limit isn't raised soon. But there's more than $1 trillion in trust funds and plenty of gold in Fort Knox that might be temporarily "reclassified" if the G.O.P. won't budge...
...with female representation on the rise, the era of male dominance looks...
...four generations of a single American family. In his mid-60s, Updike has set off on what is, for his career, the equivalent of an experimental novel. Updike uses overarching themes to bind up the threads of his lengthy story: the decline of religious faith and the corresponding rise of the movies. "The novel's central thesis--that movie theaters have become modern America's houses of worship--is never really demonstrated in action," notes TIME's Paul Gray. "It is fascinating to watch a writer of Updike's dexterity cram and mold some tremendously diverse material into a single...
...Russian government's willingness to risk the lives of Dagestani hostages to destroy the invading rebels. "Not unlike neighboring Chechnya, there are caches of weapons in every house here, and all the people are as volatile. Enmity towards Moscow is visibly growing. If Dagestan should ever rise against Moscow and traditional ethnic rivalries flare up with a renewed force, the ongoing Chechen war may seem just like the spark of a full-scale conflagration...