Word: rising
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...both committed suicide, he rose to significance in the party as head of the gas monopoly and the largest state bank. He made his political mark in 1987 with a fiery speech to the Serb minority in the province of Kosovo. Many consider that speech the beginning of his rise to power, as well as of the Serbs' nationalist passion and the wars that were inspired...
Reports of the U.S. economy's imminent declinenow appear to be greatly exaggerated. After three straight monthly drops in GDP, new reports out of Washington show increases in retail sales and industrial production, with no rise in inflation. The downturn in indicators, saysTIME's Bill McWhirter, were only an aberration rather than a trend. "April was a just a blip. What happened was a confluence of bad news, topped by a $20 billion retroactive tax bill. About 90 percent of the disposable income in the country is in the hands of people making over $60,000 a year. These people...
...broken ground for the $165 million New Jersey Performing Arts Center, which is scheduled to open in 1997. He has got a supermarket chain to agree to open a store in the crime-ridden central ward and has promoted the construction of affordable housing, including the widely admired low-rise Society Hill development...
...during that brutal regime was at A.A. meetings. In Poland the first A.A. convention in 1984 attracted 27 groups from across the country; there are now 940 groups. Professor Wiktor Osiatynski, chairman of the Commission of Education on Alcoholism in Warsaw's Stefan Batory Foundation, says A.A.'s rapid rise in Poland can largely be attributed to the Solidarity trade-union movement. "Solidarity was the first event in Poland's history where people began to realize that they could tackle their problems by organizing themselves, instead of looking to their leaders, to someone else, to solve their problems," he says...
...This one is more interesting and better fun, a formidable leader looking back on her early winning battles. She is known now as the Iron Lady, but as a pretty, naive young pol who cut through cant, prevarication and some very real problems, she must have been exhilarating. Her rise, as she once described the star-is-born press coverage that greeted her maiden speech in Commons, was "roses, roses...