Word: rising
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...their biological parents. Desperate, obsessive, their searches have, over the past two decades, ceased to be merely a matter of individual effort and have become a national movement. There are more than 450 support groups for searchers. Many conduct meetings modeled on Alcoholics Anonymous, in which new participants rise with the passion of the converted and state their mission: "I'm Sarah, and I'm looking for my daughter born...
Even so, some currency experts believe that the dollar will rise again in the next six weeks to three months, since U.S. interest rates remain relatively high compared with levels in Japan and West Germany. The prime reason for high U.S. rates is the heavy Government borrowing necessary for financing the budget deficit...
...been playing a deadly game of cowboys and Indians. We all started as Indians. Many primitive cultures -- and the indigenous peoples still clinging today to their pockets of underdevelopment -- regarded the earth and all its creatures as alive. Nature was a whistling wind tunnel of spirits. With the rise of a scientific, clockwork cosmos and of missionary Christianity, with its message of man's dominion and relentless animus against paganism, nature was metaphorically transformed. It became dead meat...
...appreciable assets, whom inflation hits hardest. (Homeowners already have big tax breaks. They're allowed to roll gains tax-free from one home to the next and, at 55, avoid tax altogether on $125,000.) Furthermore, insulating voters from inflation makes them more tolerant of it and thus its rise more likely -- but its effects, ultimately, no less devastating...
...children have risen, so has the willingness of judges to remove the victims from parents who beat and molest them. Now such children constitute nearly 60% of the foster-care caseload. And by 1991 the number of newborns infected with the virus that causes AIDS is expected to rise...