Word: risings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...This stake begins to drive the two apart. Tensions rise until Homer finds an escape in the arrival of young Wally and Candy (Paul Rudd and Charlize Theron), who came to the orphanage to terminate Candy's pregnancy. Homer, around their age, returns to Wally's farm with him and joins the apple-picking migrants in their seasonal labor. From there, Homer begins an even greater journey to make his own way in the world, a society with which he is almost completely unfamiliar because of his sheltered existence with Larch and the orphans...
...return the government to the people. They say special interests have crippled Congress, rendering it unable to make the improvements the public demands in such areas as health care, education and Social Security. The tack appears to be working as polls show both candidate's popularity on the rise in New Hampshire...
Starting salaries for new assistant professors will rise more than 12 percent next fall. Current salaries will be adjusted for junior faculty, and salaries for individual colleagues in especially competitive fields may be raised. Additionally, the $3,000 housing supplement will be raised to $5,000 and the salary step based on number of years at Harvard will be eliminated...
...continues to rise and unemployment figures fall to record lows, a tight labor market challenges retail store managers who need extra staff to maximize profits from holiday shoppers...
...mounting Russian casualties in exchange for few tangible gains. That gives Russia an incentive to try and divide the Chechen resistance with concessions to the moderates, while seeking to isolate and neutralize hard-liners. With Russian parliamentary elections only five days away, success in Chechnya has fueled the unlikely rise of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to the pinnacle of political popularity. But he won't want this war dragging on into next summer, when he goes to the polls in the hope of succeeding President Yeltsin...