Word: crest
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...moment, Thatcher continues to ride the crest of her post-Falklands popularity; the latest polls show the Tories running 12½ percentage points ahead of Labor. But any new confrontation in the Falklands could upset the present mood, and last week just such a possibility was reported. Though Argentine officials denied that they were planning fresh hit-and-run attacks on the Falklands, U.S. State Department officers expressed some worry over intelligence reports of troop concentrations and exercises in southern Argentina. "They are up to something," says one U.S. intelligence official. "It may just be to keep the British...
...have just traded five years as a social worker for a computer-science degree. I never imagined this field would be so challenging, exciting and people oriented. If society is just beginning to discover what the computer can accomplish in the future, then we are riding on the crest of a revolution. Therein lies the thrill of belonging to this generation...
Riding the crest of Wall Street's biggest rally in history, the value of Harvard's endowment has increased more than $3000 million in the last three months to an all-time high more than $2 billion, University financial officers said yesterday...
...Mikhail Baryshnikov, Barbara Walters, Mary Tyler Moore, Placido Domingo and Joanne Woodward. Among them was the graciously articulate poet's widow, Valerie Eliot, the artistic patroness of the production. After the performance, the whole glittering assemblage adjourned to the Waldorf-Astoria for a celebratory supper. Buoyed on the crest of the show's commercial prospects, the festivities were not dampened by a wave of initial reviews that were more mixed than the drinks. Scarcely a headline writer in New York, it seems, could resist pointing out that Cats was less than purrfect...
...barbarian hordes beginning their classes this month may be the largest in U.S. history, a tribute to both parental prodigality and the ideal of universal education. Though the crest of the 1950s baby boom has passed the college years, a larger percentage of high school graduates now goes to college (61%, vs. 40% a generation ago), and the number of older and part-time students keeps increasing (34% of students are over 25). All in all, the number of Americans who are signing up for some form of higher education this fall totals a mind-boggling 12.5 million. Mind-boggling...