Word: risen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
What has happened is the exact opposite. Far from becoming dangerously weak, the dollar, if anything, may be a bit too strong. So far this year it has risen about 6% on average against the currencies of the 19 most important U.S. trading partners. In May the greenback hit a four-year high against the British pound, while the euro, introduced 17 months earlier at a price of $1.17, fell briefly below 90[cents...
...stakes have risen, so has the pressure to perform--and the frustration among parents, students and educators. In the past year, protest-the-test groups have sprouted in at least 36 states. In Colorado, more than a thousand parents, teachers and students surrounded the state capitol in March and demanded that Governor Bill Owens take the test. (He too declined.) Parents in Louisiana, Indiana and California have gone a step further, filing lawsuits alleging that the tests violate their children's civil rights. In Illinois, 200 students claimed they flunked the test on purpose. Teachers are taking to the streets...
...over the thinking of the sneaker industry. Something of the same archly juvenile outlandishness has been at work designing women's shoes, which have the look of illustrations in a children's story - blockish and clunkish and exaggerated. All fashion is an aesthetic of distortion. But platform shoes have risen so high you could use them to drill for oil in the Gulf. They look spectacular, even crazy, and elevate foot fashion to the status of a major social hazard. A young woman in a car who tries to lift the great block on her right foot from accelerator...
...PPOS have emerged as the leaders of the pack. Most adopted a $10 co-payment to MDs within their networks, originally an HMO feature. Unlike HMOs, the PPOS do not require their doctors to seek approval before performing services. PPOS have also become more competitive as HMO premiums have risen...
...Supreme Court, in its famed Bakke v. California decision, cited Harvard's system as a model for private institutions to follow. Since the '70s, the number of minority admits has steadily risen. Tests have become secondary, in part because educational experts concluded that they were far less objective than once thought; they are often biased in favor of the wealthy...