Word: rising
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...HAVE JUST LEARNED THAT GLOBAL warming might cause sea levels to rise as much as three feet by the year 2100. With only a century to prepare, how will we ever survive such a catastrophe? Of course, that is the extreme worst-case scenario, so I may be overreacting. Perhaps I should just go back to worrying about overpopulation and rapacious development, which, if allowed to continue, will surely turn our battered planet into a toxic wasteland to which inundation would come as a blessing. DOUGLAS E. SHERMAN Brighton, Massachusetts...
...holding at week's end. There was, however, a cruel new twist: makeshift natural-gas lines, flowing with the volatile fuel for the first time in months, caused at least two serious explosions in Sarajevo, where Kosevo Hospital set up a special burn unit to handle an expected rise in burn victims...
...million tons. Russians will not starve, however, because up to half the vegetables and a third of the meat eaten in the country are produced privately, often in backyard plots. Politicians, however, could lose big: they face parliamentary elections in mid-December, just when food prices are expected to rise...
...emphasized that his generation of Indian leaders, unlike the country's founders, believe only economic growth spurred by further liberalization can eradicate poverty. He was sure that goal could be substantially reached by 2010. By then, if current trends continue, India's annual per capita gross national product will rise from its present...
Wagner, who is currently enrolled in the HealthFlex Family Plan, will see his health care costs rise 117 percent this year, as a result of Blue Cross raising its premiums significantly...