Word: ascendant
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...tallest restaurant, and drinks in the world's highest pub, are filled with breathless gawking at the cityscape below. A pair of huge 150-ton dampers - weights that absorb the motion of a swaying building - eliminate sloshing in the world's loftiest pool. The world's fastest elevators must ascend at the rate of 10 meters a second in order to make journey times tolerable. Such is life at the world's tallest hotel - or the tallest for now, at any rate...
...until he ends the line with a tinge of bitterness: “Do you think at all?” As a vocal performer, Hart has never sounded more immediate and direct.On the album’s title track, and closing song, majestic piano chords ascend over a din of jangling guitars and trumpet bleats, providing a fitting segue into the eerie coda of this whirlwind record. It proves a satisfying conclusion to this chapter in William Cullen Hart’s life and Circulatory System’s existence. But even without the album’s context?...
SWORN IN Sonia Sotomayor became the first Hispanic Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court and just the third woman to ascend to that bench, after the Senate voted 68-31 to approve her nomination to replace Justice David Souter...
...base camp. According to a diplomatic source at Spain's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, half the team is made up of alpinists from around the world, and half are Pakistani porters. Three of the climbers left base camp the morning of Aug. 14, moving as quickly as possible to ascend to Pérez's location...
That may be small consolation for the Latino community, which just saw one of its members ascend to the Supreme Court but must still struggle for basic respect. Yet the study does suggest ways to fix the problem. For one thing, Timberlake says, the cable ranters should pipe down - or the audience should switch them off. "These people are entertainers seeking attention," he says. "I don't see the value of ginning up hatred of a particular group. All that does is diminish our chance to solve the problem...