Word: rising
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ventilation systems allow air to rise and go down and that infringes on everyone else," he said. "Maybe the solution is messing around with the ventilation, but the current compromise is probably a solid...
Copley was, in fact, the first American painter really to prosper on his home ground. To do so, he had to rise socially. The portrait painter has to have the same values, and preferably move in the same social sphere, as his clients. He must know the details of dress, possessions, gesture, expression--the whole theater of a sitter's self-representation--from within. Titian, Rubens, Van Dyck and Reynolds had shown that; and Copley, in a smaller domain, knew it too. In 1769 he cemented his place in the upper crust of Massachusetts by marrying Susannah Clarke, daughter...
...Senator Gorton's assertion that as budget cuts take place, Native Americans must sacrifice like other Americans is akin to Hitler's telling the Jews in Auschwitz that although conditions there were bad, things in Berlin were not so good either. The American Indians in our country need to rise up to oppose this betrayal. Shame on Senator Gorton, and shame on the U.S. government. JAMES MILLS Hanover, New Hampshire...
...October, end as the fans' hopes rise and fall with each playoff game, we resettle into our place at the bottom of baseball's hierarchy...
...years out of Harvard Business School, Houghton entered Corning, Inc., the company founded by his great-great grandfather, where he began a steady rise which culminated in his appointment as chair...