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"No, what is on my mind is the damnable situation into which we have been thrust by this contest," Dole continued, rising to his feet.
The Globe 's circulation is rising fast.
There remain, of course, a few social problems that really have gotten worse in the last few years, and Bennett, of course, eagerly cites them: a rising percentage of births to unwed mothers, rising marijuana consumption by high-school seniors, a growing and possibly indiscriminate tendency for doctors to prescribe Ritalin to children suspected of suffering from attention deficit disorder.
He went to work for the United Nations, rising gradually through the ranks at the World Health Organization, the High Commission on Refugees, and the Secretariat.
And Hill was not too horrified to follow Thomas' rising star from the Department of Education to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), nor to keep in touch with Thomas in subsequent years--getting him to write a letter of recommendation that helped her land a law teaching job, phoning him repeatedly, inviting him to make an appearance at the law school, and more.