Word: rising
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...years ago by Franklin D. Roosevelt. Gingrich's success was fed by the smoldering anger of a nation suffering from stagnant wages, chronic overspending by the Federal Government, the failure of the public schools, the decline of public decency and the stubborn inability of the American underclass to rise out of poverty. He bundled up these anxieties cleverly, even brilliantly, and set them ablaze. "I want to encourage you to be a little anxious," he writes in his book To Renew America, "and then I want to encourage you to turn that anxiety into energy...
...issue re-emerged on the Harvard campus in 1993 when William D. Cole, then an instructor in Romance languages, wrote an article in the January 1993 issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education claiming that grades on Ivy League cam- puses were on the rise...
...grow much faster than the overall rolls, as more uninsured Americans become aware of these services and the baby-boom generation ages. This expansion will be accompanied by an increase in the very old. The population age 85 and over, 20% of whom now live in nursing homes, will rise 50% during the 1990s. A patient's annual nursing-home care can run to $35,000; a poor child's overall health-care bill, by contrast, costs Medicaid just...
...hypocritically assailed them, while his own Medicare blueprint does basically the same. But such costs for the poor or near poor can't really be raised. In fact, Medicare and Medicaid are intertwined in a way that ensures that every time Medicare premiums go up, Medicaid's costs automatically rise as well, since Medicaid pays the Medicare premium expenses for 4 million needy seniors...
...regaled with homemade sheep's milk cheese and a glass of iced champagne--funk and chic together, essential Brancusi. He loved contrasting the rough with the smooth, the hyper-refined freehand curve with the lump and the block. And when those sleek organic forms, half-volatilized in light, rise up from their wooden pedestals, you think of the resurrection of glorified bodies...