Word: rising
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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YOUR ARTICLE ON TALK-SHOW HOST RICKI Lake and the rise of trash TV was very timely [Television, Jan. 30]. Lane's show in particular was the reason I recently had my cable service canceled. I find it very disturbing that trashy people are allowed to go on national TV with the sordid facts, real or fabricated, about their pathetic lives. These are people I would never associate with or ever want to meet. It's maddening to have them on network TV, screaming out from channel to channel. There are viewers watching these shows who feel...
...special period.'' Imports have dried up. Industry has folded in on itself. Cuba's No. 1 money earner, the sugar crop, amounted to less than 4 million tons this year--a level not seen for decades. The island's factories are producing at only 30% capacity, giving rise to shortages in everything from clothes and cosmetics to pots and pans...
...ordinary Cubans race to take advantage of the reforms, inequalities are swiftly giving rise to their inevitable byproducts: class resentment, social unrest and crime. Prostitution once again flourishes in Havana. The influx of tourists (including some Americans, who slip onto the island illegally from Nassau) sets up a stark contrast between the fantasy playground being built for foreigners and the gritty reality that ordinary Cubans must contend with. As the inequalities increase, many poor but educated Cubans view the rush to the dollar with disgust...
...tentativeness in Beijing and assertiveness in the provinces; many of them are concerned about it. Deng's economic reforms have led to immense growth and considerable prosperity for some, but they have also brought worrisome side effects. Inflation is in double digits, corruption and crime are on the rise, and development is very uneven...
Many people have been living in the samerent-controlled apartments for years, Pitkin says.When housing prices rise, those people will leave,returning Cambridge to the "pattern of short-termresidents" that characterized the Square beforerent control took effect in the early 1970s...