Word: rising
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...former Senator said the very existence of large numbers of government employees, most notably the 12,000 staff members in Congress, tends to give rise to unnecessary busywork...
...Nemir Kirdar, 59, the Iraqi-born founder and president of Investcorp, the Arab investment boutique that engineered Gucci's turnaround. Shod in black reptile-skin Gucci loafers, Kirdar sat confidently in his company's New York City office--occupying the entire 37th floor of a Park Avenue high-rise--contemplating Gucci's renaissance. After Investcorp bought the company in the late 1980s, Gucci lost so much money some feared it would go bust. "There was a time," says Kirdar, "when--in the minds of several of our clients as well as some of our own professionals--Gucci was a write...
...Grubb speaks, registration and sales tents rise behind her. "When I began volunteering we thought of it as a Denver thing or a Colorado thing,'' she says. "Now it's going across the U.S. and starting into Canada and other countries. The Lord expects more from us, as we're ready...
...passes, the case may recede into being only another speck of sand on the sand hill, but its effect on the shape of the hill will last forever. There is far more at stake here than the case. Yes, one side lost and another won, but did either one rise to the occasion? MAIR ZAMIR, London, Ontario...
Members of the CUE focused more on the problem of different mean grades in the natural sciences, social sciences and humanities than with the general rise of grades...