Word: rising
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Come January, the "old cries" will rise from the Yard in what you will see as a touching moment of collective anxiety relief or the reason why you never should have come here in the first place, depending on your disposition...
This is the first time you will be taken seriously as a quasi-adult by those around you. The administration cares what you think (sort of), and you will have the opportunity to rise to the top of myriad extracurricular groups. Be forewarned, however, that many others are out to be taken seriously as well--hence the power struggles that plague many seemingly-benign organizations...
...Russians insist Mir is in good shape, but they cannot say the same for the workers at the Baikonur launch site in Kazakhstan. According to a report on Moscow TV, the workers' housing is deteriorating, crime is on the rise, and schools and hospitals are closing down. Under such conditions, observes James Oberg, an author and expert on the Russian space program, "skills get diluted, motivation disappears, attention wanders...
...latest bulletins from the germ front come on top of a long series of horror stories. For years now people have been reading about -- and suffering from -- all sorts of new and resurgent diseases. As if AIDS were not enough to worry about, there was a rise in other sexually transmitted infections, including herpes, syphilis and gonorrhea. People heard about the victims who died in the Northwest from eating undercooked Jack in the Box hamburgers tainted with a hazardous strain of E. coli bacteria. They were told to cook their chicken thoroughly to avoid food poisoning from salmonella bacteria...
...make this variant of strep such a quick and vicious killer is that the bacterium itself is infected with a virus, which spurs the germ to produce especially powerful toxins. (It was severe, invasive strep A that killed Muppeteer Jim Henson in 1990.) If strep A is on the rise, as some believe, it will be dosed with antibiotics, and may well become resistant to some or all of the drugs...