Word: rising
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...Edwards' claim that Harvard is "not a local school, not even for people from Cambridge," Mayor Francis H. Duehay '55, now in his 14th term on the Cambridge City Council and his third term as the city's chief, believes his connection to the University contributed to his political rise...
...TIME senior economics reporter Bernard Baumohl figures today?s number and yesterday?s ?- a mildly alarming boost in retail sales ?- cancel each other out. "My sense from the last meeting was that the Fed was done unless it saw some clear and unambiguous evidence that inflation was on the rise," he says. "And there certainly hasn?t been any of that." Plus, says Baumohl, there?s one more good reason that the Fed will stand pat next month: Greenspan?s mind is on Floyd...
There is more agreement when it comes to the effects of global warming on weather trends. Few would debate that because hurricanes gather their strength from the warm surface waters of the central Atlantic, the rise in temperatures has probably added to the magnitude of recent storms, says Jim Lushine, meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Miami. "It's safe to assume that the higher water temperatures in the Atlantic are contributing to the intensity of this year's storms," he says. The number of storms is not likely to be affected by the temperature changes, says Lushine...
...biotech companies such as Monsanto, based in the U.S., and Novartis AG, based in Switzerland, the rise of GM technology has meant boom times. Sales of GM seeds rose in value from $75 million in 1995 to $1.5 billion last year, and the crops they produce are turning up not only on produce shelves but also in processed foods from cookies to potato chips to baby food...
...RISE AND FALL OF THE AMERICAN TEENAGER (Bard) Americans tend to view the teenage years, from puberty to the prom, as a singular life passage. But author Thomas Hine reminds us that for most of our history, those between 13 and 19 did not move in lockstep through their education--or even attend school--and that the word teenager dates back only to 1941. "What was new about the idea of the teenager at the time the word first appeared during World War II," writes Hine, "was the assumption that all young people--regardless of their class, location or ethnicity...