Word: rosing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With the police so busy, an increase in general crime was inevitable. In 1977 reported crimes in Italy rose by 7.5% over the previous year-from 1,900,000 to 2,090,000. An average of eight out often of these crimes, or 13% more than in 1976, remained unsolved. Kidnaping, more often for profit than political motives-but occasionally for both -reached a record total of 76 in 1977. Since 1970, kidnapers have netted $175.5 million in ransom money...
...half-point, to 6½%, and raised its target for the "Fed funds" rate, which banks charge one another on overnight loans, from 6½% to about 6¾%. Other rates moved up in sympathy; the prime rate on banks' loans to their best business borrowers rose from...
...number of middle-income students choosing to attend Harvard rose by six per cent last year, the first year during which the new loan plan was in effect, Gibson said...
...chair and looks out the window. Cambridge does not even have the grace to be covered with snow. ("What if Harry Levin actually wrote the plays of Shakespeare?"). Sulphur-laden ice spreads like cancer over the Charles and Roast Beef Specials cost 60 cents ("If the Atlantic rose a few inches, Boston would be devastated and there wouldn't be any exams...
...read 800 words a minute for 17 hours..."). Cold fact asserts itself through sleep-drugged minds ("Gazelles cannot actually leap; they are merely very poor flyers"), until fact and fancy no longer collide but merge like an icy cancer spreading over a Roast Beef Special ("If the Atlantic rose and drowned all the gazelles there might not be any Harry Levins...