Word: rose
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...night wore on, the number of lawmen prowling the mountains rose to 150. Five vanloads arrived carrying teams of specially trained state trooper SWAT teams. At the direction of Attorney General Bell, who stayed in close contact with the President, the FBI took charge of the case, and 75 agents moved quickly into the area. The FBI ordered in a special helicopter armed with an infra-red sensing device; it began roaming the area, hunting for minute changes in temperature on the forest floor that might be caused by the presence of men. In all, five helicopters flew over...
...much care to the completion of the cathedral roof. He was particularly concerned with the building of Catholic schools, for he said openly that public schools were dens of immorality and heresy. When he became bishop, only 500 Philadelphia children went to parochial schools; within three years that number rose...
...first time since the fiscal year 1972-'73, the University budget in the last academic year showed a surplus, while the Corporation's portfolio rose $900,000, or 11 per cent, in market value. The endowment rose to $1.4 billion...
...three-choice computer program the College instituted this spring maximized the number of freshmen sent to their first choice house. As a result, the system permitted "strategizing"--ranking Houses in other than true preference order--and freshmen rose to the challenge with the enthusiasm of gambling addicts...
...record 11,258 people applied to enter the Harvard-Radcliffe Class of '81 this year, but the number of blacks applying dropped 8.5 per cent to 609. Minority applications as a whole rose, however, largely because of a 33 per cent increase in the number of Asian-Americans applying...