Word: climbing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...that credibility was already taking a beating. Every time Bush tried to regain his footing, he tripped over more bad news and more second guesses, including those from his own team. The military and civilian death toll in Iraq continued to climb, so that the recently optimistic Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi sounded darker about the prospects for stability any time soon. British hostage Kenneth Bigley was beheaded. It emerged that U.S. forces had found floor plans of schools in six American states on a computer disc in Iraq, which launched a round of newscasters interviewing school superintendents from Florida...
...could only rise as high as eighth with one week to go in the season. Penn actually fell to 12th in the final poll, because, presumably, its 59-7 win over Cornell in a meaningless game wasn’t convincing enough. And Penn began its climb up the human poll ladder much earlier than this year’s Crimson squad...
...doubt for long. With a little over one minute gone by in the second half, sophomore Gretchen Fuller stuffed home a loose ball in front of the net for her sixth goal of the year, putting offense-starved Cornell in a hole that they would find impossible to climb...
...serious to be excused in the name of creating a more modest society, such an argument should be made with the assumption that the Iranian government does not, like America, value the idea of individual freedom. It was love of the idea of freedom that spurred the Iranians to climb over the shah’s towering walls and force him out of his palaces, installing, in his place, a regime infinitely more supportive of individualism...
...most politicians’ time horizons don’t extend past the next election cycle, world markets offer a more farsighted view. Unfortunately the view isn’t pretty. The price of oil continues to climb as we deplete our diminishing world reserves at an ever-accelerating rate...