Word: rising
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...afford to wait. The longer someone is unemployed, the harder it is to get back to work, a fact as true for the nation as it is for you and me. As the Peterson Institute's Jacob Kirkegaard explains, "It is entirely possible that what started as a cyclical rise in unemployment could end up as an entrenched problem." Past crises have illustrated that lesson: the longer you wait, the harder it is to contain. This is as true for joblessness as it was for subprime mortgages, al-Qaeda and computer viruses...
Once she signed on to the project, Timoner embarked on a 10-year journey with Harris, documenting his rise, fall, and various experiments, including one in which Harris and his former girlfriend Tanya installed surveillance cameras in their apartment and aired their lives on the internet for 100 days. At first it seemed fun, even practical—Tanya could ask the camera if anyone had seen her keys, and a viewer could answer her via web chat on the show’s website—but ultimately it led to the couple’s violent break...
...notch lyricism, “Only Built 4 Cuban Linx… Pt. II” is more than just a great sequel. It’s testament to the vibrancy and strength of the gangster hip-hop culture, filling a void left manifestly and painfully vacant with the rise of the Auto-Tune and the increasing move of gangster rappers toward the pop genre in recent years. Raekwon and his Wu-Tang accompaniment dazzle on every track, and demonstrate that they can continue to thrive in the niche they created for themselves in the early 90s without getting dull...
...America has always been a great laboratory of social innovation, from Ben Franklin's creation of the volunteer fire department and the lending library to the rise of online collectives like Wikipedia and Facebook. Usually it has been an invention, some innovation in commerce - the car, the lightbulb, the television - that has changed how we interact with one another as well as how we think of ourselves. We are again entering a period of social change as Americans are recalibrating our sense of what it means to be a citizen, not just through voting or volunteering but also through commerce...
...businesses this year. Nearly 40% said they purchased a product in 2009 because they liked the social or political values of the company that produced it. That's evidence of a changing mind-set, a new kind of social contract among consumers, business and government. We are seeing the rise of the citizen consumer - and the beginnings of a responsibility revolution...