Word: climbed
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...sexual trend--couples prefer first-floor rooms to higher altitude sites of lovemaking. "It's almost entirely first floor [classrooms and labs]," says a guard. "I don't know why not second and third floor rooms. Maybe when you're that hot and bothered, you can't wait to climb the stairs...
Much evidence comes from big-ticket items like autos and housing, among the first to be clobbered by rising interest rates. The past three years were heady ones for Detroit, which saw car and truck sales climb 8% in 1993 and an additional 8.6% in 1994. But with sales expected to grow just 3% this year, automakers are scaling back production schedules and idling plants. Ford, which had declared three temporary closings in January, said it would also shut a Canadian plant that makes full-size Crown Victorias for a week beginning Monday, and close a Ford Thunderbird and Mercury...
After 56 minutes of recycled campaign themes, Bill Clinton finally made some news during last week's State of the Union address: the minimum wage should climb, he said, because ``you can't make a living on $4.25 an hour.'' That's for sure--but as Clinton himself explained two years ago, hiking the minimum is ``the wrong way to raise the incomes of low-wage earners...
Stock prices in general, though, could falter again if final damage estimates climb higher. The demand for capital for building projects could push long-term interest rates higher, drain cash out of the stock market and divert large amounts of money from other important enterprises...
...Republicans here have a higher mountain to climb in terms of voter registration and we also have a higher cultural hill to get over. For many years, it was culturally unacceptable to be a Republican in Massachusetts," Vernon adds. "I kept the fact that I was a Republican under wraps...I mean if I was at some social function in Cambridge, I would not say I was a Republican...