Word: rising
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Comfortably perched as the No. 1 singles player in the country, few college players can rise to the level of sophomore James Blake and offer him a challenge...
Comfortably perched as the No. 1 singles player in the country, few college players can rise to the level of sophomore James Blake and offer him a challenge...
...there are 1,500 members dispersed into 21 chapters, or what Slow Food poetically calls convivia, derived from the Latin word meaning festive. Lately many convivia have been forced to turn away people lest the groups risk losing their intimacy. Petrini sees promise in such American phenomena as the rise of microbreweries in a market long dominated by a handful of beer conglomerates. He points out that with its immigrant influences and agricultural diversity, the U.S. should be hospitable to spreading the Slow Food philosophy. "Europeans are skilled at defending their heritage," he says, "but Americans also have a culinary...
...GORE Strikes right note on Littleton; polls rise. Barred from subbing for Larry King, but job front rosy...
...business in general--the fact is that they just aren't going. Women account for only 29% of those in the country's top business schools, and it's been that way since 1994. Meanwhile, other professional-degree programs are educating women in impressive numbers that continue to rise. Women made up 46% of first-year law students in the 1997-98 school year, for example...