Word: rising
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...complex and ever shifting mosaic, as local elections across the nation demonstrated last week. In general, the cities' voters remained loyal to incumbents, and still more so to the Democratic Party. But there were strong crosscurrents of change in some big cities. Most notable: the sudden rise to prominence of new voting blocs in Houston, Miami and San Francisco, and the equally sudden demise of the tough-guy mayoral style in Cleveland, Philadelphia and Minneapolis...
Moreover, opponents are threatening a prolonged talkathon that could drag on into next year's presidential primary season. If so, demands would rise that a vote be put off until after the elections. Altogether, it was an unhappy week for SALT backers, who could echo King Pyrrhus:"Another such victory and I shall be ruined...
Prices gyrate two or three points between lunch and cocktails. When interest rates rise bond prices fall-and often sharply. That is because securities sold earlier at lower rates are less desirable than new bonds that will pay a higher return. In just a few hours last month, the price of 30-year Government bond fell two points-from 91% of face value to 89%-and bond dealers lost $20,000 on a mind lot $1 million purchase of the issue. In this environment, corporations are forced to raise interest rates still higher to attract new customers. Since the beginning...
...rise of young women executives will fairly soon accelerate. In U.S. graduate schools of business, one in five students working toward an M.B.A. degree is a woman. The percentage is larger in the elite universities. The share of women M.B.A. recipients in last spring's graduating classes was Stanford 24%, Dartmouth 25%, Wharton 26%, M.I.T. 28%, Northwestern 30%, Columbia...
...women aged 20 to 64 hold jobs and are tremendously affecting the current economy. One example: productivity is flat, in some part because many women are holding first-time jobs and are not so well trained as men. But as the newcomers gain experience, productivity will rise...