Word: climbed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gasoline prices have more than doubled since 1973, a far steeper climb than that of inflation, and yet consumption continues to surge. Gasoline prices would have to climb much, much higher to make a significant difference; moderately higher prices will help a little bit, but nowhere near enough to make that alone the reason to decontrol...
...they are also drivers in the brutal world of big-time stock car racing, and 31 weekends a year, from January to November, they are transformed. Exchanging their designer jeans and Christian Dior shirts for fire-resistant jumpsuits, they climb behind the wheels of souped-up sedans?Chevrolets, Fords, Oldsmobiles-?or a Sunday afternoon of racing. And once the gentlemen have started their engines, they often revert to type, crowding each other, even banging fenders, at 170 m.p.h., just as the mythic forebears of their sport dueled with the revenooers on the back roads twisting through the Appalachian Mountains...
...still centered there, NASCAR's Grand National circuit, which uses only late-model sedans, visits Brooklyn, Mich., Dover, Del., and Ontario, Calif. Last year more than 1.5 million fans watched the races, and purses rose to $4.8 million, a 50% increase in five years. This season the money will climb to over $5 million. And this year, for the first time, national TV carried an entire race live; CBS covered the Daytona 500 in February and drew 40 million viewers...
...came to the farm bouncy with optimism. I had lived in the country before. I knew how to ride a horse. I knew Herefords from Holsteins. I liked to climb trees. I could chop wood, remember to close gates, cook on open fires...
...lunar lunacy, the cow that jumped over the moon has gone into orbit. During this year's first three months, average prices for beef cuts are up 9%, to $2.23 per lb., and are expected to climb a further 25% by year's end. Because high prices at meat counters are such an immediate indicator of inflation's bite, consumers are clamoring for Washington to do something to bring them down...