The decade was marked by rising civil rights, antiwar, student and feminist movements demanding changes to the status quo.
His one-and-a-half-year tenure was marked by rising bloodshed and criticism of his handling of the fraud-plagued presidential elections in August.
But they are also masking an increasingly difficult business environment, marked by rising costs, tightening access to oil fields, and declining profit for refineries.
Dr. Scott's tenure at Ramapo was marked by rising enrollments, increasingly rigorous admission standards, a construction boom, fiscal stability and the addition of three graduate degree programs.
The risk is that this shift could become a demographic disaster marked by rising levels of youth unemployment, social dislocation and hunger.
His rule has been marked by rising poverty, corruption and a slow erosion of the meaning of such concepts as democracy and a free market economy.
The last days of Jimmy Carter's Presidency were marked by rising unemployment, soaring inflation, and a widespread belief that things were only getting worse.
In the telling of its original defenders, such as Alan Greenspan and George Gilder, the New Economy would be a wonderful place, marked by rising productivity, rising incomes, enhanced competition, and lower prices.
Ms. Rhee's three-year tenure as head of Washington's public schools was marked by rising test scores and the end of a long trend of declining enrollment by families fleeing dismal schools.
In 1913 a group including the architect Herbert Lucas demolished the mansion for a distinctive light-brick apartment house with a heavy rusticated base, its 11-story facade marked by rising oriel windows along both street fronts.
China's ties with Venezuela have grown increasingly warm in recent years, marked by rising Venezuelan oil exports to China, the Chinese launching of a satellite for Venezuela and the sale of Chinese military aircraft to Venezuela.
