Word: rosing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Indiana, one of the nation's largest retailers, are heavily dependent on business in the U.S., where prices are federally controlled. They had large increases that only seemed puny when compared with the others, which enjoyed gains that ranged from impressive to downright startling: SoCal's ARRIS earnings rose 43% over the past year, Gulfs profits increased 61%, and Texaco's were up 81%. Marathon Oil had a rise of 108%, while Amerada Hess jumped 279%. Standard Oil of Ohio, holder of a large and profitable stake on Alaska's North Slope, increased 303%; Continental Oil, which owns Consolidation Coal...
...prohibited union organizing on the reservation. Consequently, while union uranium miners were paid $2.01 per hour in 1963, Navajo miners earned only $1.25; in 1968, hourly union wages rose as high as $3.42, while Navajo miners got $2.26. Former miner Terry Light recalled. "The company came around and said there were mining jobs opening up, but they didn't tell us a thing about the dangers of uranium mining." The Navajo man continues, "The mining came cheap back then. The white men really took advantage of the Navajos who needed jobs...
...ticket to watch the jousting. Although the sport was born in the South and is still centered there, NASCAR's Grand National circuit, which uses only late-model sedans, visits Brooklyn, Mich., Dover, Del., and Ontario, Calif. Last year more than 1.5 million fans watched the races, and purses rose to $4.8 million, a 50% increase in five years. This season the money will climb to over $5 million. And this year, for the first time, national TV carried an entire race live; CBS covered the Daytona 500 in February and drew 40 million viewers...
...make room for the advertisers. Graham did nothing of the sort; he used his newfound security to take on better journalists and increase his paper's authority. Graham's suicide in 1963 suddenly pushed his shy wife Katharine into the job of publisher. To nearly everyone's surprise, she rose to the challenge, hired the editors who hired the reporters who took on, eventually, the house that Nixon built. Similarly the Los Angeles Times achieved a monopoly in its morning market; already rich under Norman Chandler, it grabbed for respectability under Son Otis. Democrats seeking office in California soon...
...Rose E. Frisch, lecturer at the School of Public Health, and Dr. Janet W. McArthur, professor of Gynecology at the Medical School, said studies show, however, that normal menstruation resumes when intense training is discontinued...