Word: climb
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...women protest; most nod in agreement. After coffee and pie, the meeting breaks up. The ladies of the club climb into their cars and drive home on roads crowded with commuters bound for night duty at Airborne Express. Some of those long-distance commuters are no doubt thinking about moving to Wilmington. It's such a tranquil little town...
...from fragile Japanese financial institutions. Says University of Chicago political economist Marvin Zonis: "To raise needed liquidity, they might sell their holdings of Treasury securities." Since Japan owns more U.S. Treasury debt than any other nation (more than $300 billion), a sell-off would cause U.S. interest rates to climb, which would bludgeon stock prices and endanger America's economic expansion. The yen could plunge in value. Cheaper Japanese products could flood the markets and worsen the U.S. trade deficit. A trade war could result with America's third largest trading partner...
...reactor operator--sat in the ready room of his F-18 Hornet squadron aboard the U.S.S. Nimitz, a 95,000-ton nuclear-powered aircraft carrier steaming in the Persian Gulf. If Clinton decided it was time to punish Saddam Hussein for his defiance of United Nations inspectors, Proton would climb into his $28 million Hornet--the U.S. Navy's premier fighter-attack jet--and shower Iraq with up to 3,000 lbs. of laser-guided bombs and HARM missiles. McLaughlin was ready, as ready as he would ever...
Peace, With No Price Iraq and the U.S. climb down from their three-week long standoff, and the weapons inspectors get set to return. It was a deal with no losers, and one winner: Russia. Full Story...
...Changed, he offered to take her on the road with his big band. Instead, she did graduate work at the Eastman School of Music and at the Juilliard School, where she met and married actor Rick Ross, caught the ear of classical-music-business professionals and began her speedy climb to stardom. James Levine, who two years ago led the season-opening production of Otello at the Met that marked her professional coming of age, says Fleming's Desdemona "already ranks with the very best." The late Sir Georg Solti was instrumental in persuading London Records to sign...