Word: rising
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...entirely true. For much of the 1950s, the civil rights movement gestated in Southern black churches. Most important U.S. publications failed to take much notice. But Flip Schulke persevered by contracting with black-owned Ebony and Jet. With the deployment of troops in Little Rock in 1957 and the rise of civil disobedience, the work of Schulke, Leonard Freed, Dan Weiner and others received wide exposure...
...late 19th century gave rise to two new kinds of photographer: social reformers, who showed the faces of the poor, and globe-trotting photojournalists, who hunted news for the great tabloid empires...
...women. Norville, who joined the network as anchor of NBC News at Sunrise in 1987, has yet to prove herself with a national audience. Her chief success to date: as correspondent for Bad Girls, a prime-time special about troubled teens that drew sensational ratings in August. Her fast rise has reportedly miffed many colleagues at NBC News. Last week she found herself the target of criticism for appearing as "anchor" at a Philip Morris sales presentation in February. Though the network had approved her appearance, NBC News president Michael Gartner later expressed doubts about its propriety. "Had we understood...
Proponents of the linkage program said that although commercial development has enriched the city's tax base, it has exacted many other costs on the city, including traffic problems and a rise in the cost of living...
...after gyrating wildly, the market settled down in the afternoon. Even the losses in the broader market were modest. Monday's 88.12 point gain was the fourth largest one-day point rise ever...