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...Since 1980, college costs in the U.S. have risen what percentage...
...purists' time has finally come: on Dec. 31 we really will ring in the beginning of the new millennium. (After all, it's not like they called the first year "0.") But the pedants haven't exactly risen to the occasion...
...state recently instituted an energy emergency, which gives the system's administrator the right to black out houses on a rotating basis for an hour at a time. Added to the fact that the state cannot supply enough power for its residence, the price of power has also risen dramatically. In San Diego, for example, the price of energy tripled this summer...
...reasons why it has never risen, is because the mechanism for changing it was ill-defined," Smith said. "The change is long overdue...
...doing one day in 1976, driving along a highway with his family during a month-long summer vacation. Random thoughts flitted across his mind--a $100,000 note he had co-signed for a relative, now unexpectedly due; the news from Britain about the pound, which had risen to around $2; yes, and the Kremer Prize. Why, he mused, had no one been able to claim the [pound]50,000 offered by British industrialist Henry Kremer for the first man-powered flight around a mile-long, figure-eight course? "Then a light bulb went on above my head," says MacCready...