Word: climbed
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Hubbard kept adding steps, each more costly, for his followers to climb. In the 1960s the guru decreed that humans are made of clusters of spirits (or "thetans") who were banished to earth some 75 million years ago by a cruel galactic ruler named Xenu. Naturally, those thetans had to be audited...
...completed Camden Yards ball park, one can appreciate why baseball bard Roger Angell proclaimed, "This is a fan's park . . . They've done it at last." Although Camden Yards is designed by the same firm that created Comiskey, here the upper deck is a graceful incline, not a mountain climb with Sherpa guides. Downtown Baltimore is always in view, from the Bromo-Seltzer clock tower behind left field to the massive, restored brick warehouse in right field that will become a 460-ft.-from-home-pl ate target. (Already the Orioles are searching for lefthanded sluggers with "warehouse power...
Last week a panel of the National Academy of Sciences issued a long-awaited report on global warming -- the theory that a buildup of carbon dioxide and other so-called greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is causing temperatures to climb, threatening crops and coastal areas that could be drowned under rising oceans if the polar ice caps melt. Though both sides could find some support for their positions in the study, its findings and recommendations could prod the go-slow faction in the White House...
...wonder they say it's lonely at the top. Down here in the real world, as the country struggles to climb out of recession, profits are flat at most companies. Unemployment jumped to 6.8% last month (it was only 5.2% last June), and thousands more workers face layoffs. Most people lucky enough to get raises last year had to be content with 5% or less...
...Robert Murray (now retired) and Tim Blessing of Pennsylvania State University took up where Schlesinger left off. This week Blessing will walk bravely into a meeting of the Organization of American Historians in Louisville and deliver a paper on the new poll results. Reagan partisans will start to climb the walls...