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Vital said her rent has risen from $300 to $689during the last two years...
Their rent has risen from $250 to $660 since1986, more than a 100 percent increase in fiveyears, she said...
...Israeli hard-liners, ever eager to sabotage the peace process, press their opposing claims to the territories. Palestinians, who regard the sudden flowering of new settlements as a direct provocation, are meeting it with increased calls to armed action. Attacks on Israeli targets using firearms or explosives have risen from 179 in 1988, the first full year of the intifadeh...
...even though the Madonna's presence has permeated the West for hundreds of years, there is still room for wonder -- now perhaps more than ever. In an era when scientists debate the causes of the birth of the universe, both the adoration and the conflict attending Mary have risen to extraordinary levels. A grass-roots revival of faith in the Virgin is taking place worldwide. Millions of worshippers are flocking to her shrines, many of them young people. Even more remarkable are the number of claimed sightings of the Virgin, from Yugoslavia to Colorado, in the past few years...
Only three years ago, New Hampshire enjoyed phenomenal prosperity. Today the question is not when things will get better, but how much worse they will become. In the wake of defense-industry cutbacks, a real estate bust and bank failures, the state's unemployment rate has risen from 2.4% when Bush was elected to 6.9%, the highest September rate ever. In the past two years 10% of New Hampshire's jobs have just disappeared. The rates of increase in the number of people on food stamps and welfare are the nation's highest. Housing experts say a home bought...