Word: rosing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Certainly, you can't help but be enthusiastic about the way the Harvard defense rose above all question marks--and a few offensive linemen--Saturday afternoon to slap a 10-0 shutout on a talented UMass squad...
...East summit talks at Camp David, and those ringing cheers were backed up by new polls that showed him making dramatic gains in the past week. According to a CBS survey, popular approval of his Administration climbed from 38% in June to 51% last week, while a Gallup poll rose from 39% in August to 56%. This shift testifies to the mercurial nature of public opinion, at least as measured by the surveys. One triumph can cause a President's rating to soar, one setback can start it plummeting again...
...second quarter of 1978 was a grim 11%. Despite the good news in the Middle East, the dollar continued to fall, reaching an alltime low of 1.51 Swiss francs. The dollar has now fallen about 37% against the Swiss franc in a single year. The price of gold rose to a record high of $216 per oz. Carter met with his top economic advisers last week to work out a plan to combat inflation, now the No. 1 domestic issue, and although he has repeatedly rejected all proposals for wage-price controls, there were indications that his advisers were definitely...
...place. The "combat zone," a two-block downtown area full of strip joints, peep shows and streetwalkers, was designated an Adult Entertainment District, and police tended to ignore "victimless crime." But in a few months the rate of street solicitation and crime, along with police corruption, rose alarmingly. After a Harvard football player was stabbed to death, the authorities had to crack down again...
Against a projected white-student loss without busing that varies roughly between 2% and 4% over the six-year period, the average rate of real white loss quickly rose toward 15% for the first year of busing, then dropped some, to about 7% to 9%, during the next three years. Predictably, the highest rates of white loss occurred in districts where large numbers of whites were forced to bus into predominantly nonwhite schools. "The size of the flight is both large and long-term," Armor concludes, and he estimates that 30% to 60% of it is due to forced busing...