Word: rising
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Standards of living rise when incomes created by the productive facilities employing older, increasingly obsolescent technologies are marshaled to finance the newly produced capital assets that embody cutting-edge technologies," Greenspan told the audience--which included Vice President Al Gore '69, whose daughter Kristin C. Gore '99, graduated earlier...
Defalco was interested in doing a show on the rise in campus conservatism and thought Stewart's letter made her stand out as someone with "very strong opinions...
Defalco was interested is doing a show on the rise in campus conservatism and thought Stewart's letter made her stand out as someone with "very strongopinions...
HELLO, I MUST BE GOING Feel that you're never around to see your kids? You're not alone. The President's Council of Economic Advisers recently quantified what plenty of folks have observed anecdotally. The rise in two-earner families, as well as single-parent families, results in parents' spending on average 22 fewer hours with their children each week than they did in 1969. That's almost a full day per week of lost parental attention. Fathers are actually spending slightly more time with their children--about two extra hours a week--than they did 30 years...
Wiencek tracks the postbellum rise of the black Hairstons against the decline of their former masters, once among the largest slaveholding families in the South. The central narrative unravels the 150-year-old mystery of a lost child, a story as brutal and romantic as anything by Faulkner. CBS is turning the book into a mini-series, but there are enough remarkable tales here for 10. A moving storyteller, Wiencek largely resists the temptation to moralize. Not since Mary Chesnut's Civil War has nonfiction about the South been as compelling as fiction...