Word: rising
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...shrug, because I do not know. Who knows if even the sun will rise again? Harvard beat Cornell and Columbia last weekend, improving its Ivy record to 3-1. What can I be sure...
...talking financial heads who failed to predict the big rise in U.S. stocks last year have resurfaced to forecast a modest rise in 1996. The expert consensus seems to be that stocks will advance 10% this year. That is not exactly a startling bit of augury: a 10% annual gain is about average for stocks in this century...
...bond market. Thirty-year U.S. Treasuries did almost as well as stocks last year, giving investors a 30% total return. If the Fed lowers interest rates, bond prices may rise a corresponding amount, but there is more risk on the downside than potential gain on the upside...
Despite Deng's imprimatur, Jiang's position is weak; by conducting these campaigns and the crackdown on dissidents, Jiang is proving to hard-liners in the Communist Party and the People's Liberation Army that he can control Chinese society. "Hard-liners are on the rise," notes Andrew Nathan, a political scientist at Columbia University. "They have more voice in the regime." Jiang needs their support if he is to succeed Deng, and the hard-liners have thought him too soft in the past...
With immigration looming as a major 1996 campaign issue, the Clinton Administration revealed that as a result of increased enforcement, the U.S. deported a record number of illegal aliens in 1995: 51,600, a 15% rise over 1994. The figure still seems minuscule, however, compared with the estimated influx of 300,000 illegals yearly...