Word: rosee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Later on, at the Washington Elms public housing project, community activist Janet Rose emphasized the need for active college role models in the city's poorest neighborhood...
...hated Harvard and MIT students because they take our houses," Rose said during lunch near the projects. "Then somebody said, 'Let's get students working with the neighborhood,'" said the mother of two Harvard students, nothing that many local children lack things like sports and computer instruction...
...called Vaccination and can boast of an inventor grandfather who had high hopes for a motorcycle that could pull a plow and a hybrid flower that closed in the presence of tears. "Florists will be mobbing me," said the old man. "Think of the dramatic effect at funerals!" Sister Rose is so organized that she alphabetizes her kitchen so that the allspice would be stored next to the ant poison...
...month to debate a 30% tax increase. Reason: the city's insurance premiums had jumped from $175,000 to $435,000 in one year. In July the Southern California Rapid Transit District came within nine hours of idling its 2,500 buses for lack of insurance. The annual premium rose from $67,000 to $3.2 million...
...Cathay scandal came at a particularly inauspicious time for the Taiwanese economy. After a muscular 10.9% growth rate in 1984, economic activity in the first half of this year rose less than 6%. Productivity has risen almost 9% annually over the past decade, but that has not been nearly enough to keep pace with the average 16% increase in wages. "From these figures, you can see we really are in danger," says one of Taiwan's leading economic policymakers...