Word: rising
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...expanded playoffs that begin this week are mildly popular among fans, but most are troubled by the rise in player salaries in recent years, the poll finds...
...VOTED last week on its welfare-reform bill, New York's Daniel Moynihan, who had engineered his own revision in 1988, demanded a bit of rare institutional solemnity. Since most of his fellow Democrats would be embracing what he considered a historic betrayal of the poor, the Senators should rise in turn from their desks to announce their votes aloud. But Moynihan was one of the few who bothered to stay at his seat during the voting. Democrats milled around. Republican Senators engaged in a round of celebratory backslapping with the 20 or so House members, including Speaker Newt Gingrich...
...CHINESE, WHO HAVE SEEN THEIR SHARE OF HISTORICAL cycles, say there is a visible momentum governing human affairs. Their epic novel Three Kingdoms begins by declaring that empires rise and then fall into chaotic fragments; but from those many small kingdoms, powers coalesce to form new empires to restore order to the cosmos. A grandiloquent way of saying, Sometimes you're up, sometimes you're down, sometimes you're big, sometimes you're small. For those who believe in such chronic convulsions, the business world last week provided the spectacle of two cycles reaching opposite apogees at once, of simultaneous...
...Report, that "strategic overreaching is already provoking a new countertide." Among the symptoms: public opinion worried about the ruling party in Congress favoring business and the rich; and popular outcry against the influence of corporate and industry lobbyists in Washington. Herewith a variation on the ancient cycle: corporate empires rise and fall, and sometimes the government intervenes...
...decade or so, scientists have learned enough about the brain to make judgments about where emotion comes from and why we need it. Primitive emotional responses held the keys to survival: fear drives the blood into the large muscles, making it easier to run; surprise triggers the eyebrows to rise, allowing the eyes to widen their view and gather more information about an unexpected event. Disgust wrinkles up the face and closes the nostrils to keep out foul smells...