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Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan briefly shook world financial markets a couple of weeks ago with a single question: "How do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values?"
The Washington Post reports that the students have escalated their demands to include the rollback of half a dozen changes the university has imposed in recent years, including limits on the number of years students have to earn degrees and tougher enrollment standards.
As political accusations against Starr and the right have escalated, the press has devoted a greater share of its scandal coverage to questioning the methods and motives of those who gathered the evidence against Clinton.
Salaries have escalated since the repeal of the reserve clause.
The controversy over Palestinian land sales to Jews escalated.