Word: loomings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fiendish design, the highest points on earth loom tantalizingly at the limits of mankind's physiological reach. Mountaineers and M.D.s agree that above 8,000 m (26,246 ft.), a physical curtain begins to fall. Higher than this, the air is so thin that ordinary people can live for only several hours -- if at all. Trapped in the so-called death zone, says one climber who is familiar with these altitudes, "you can't shout for help anymore. You lose your sense of logic. And you die in euphoria, overestimating your own strength...
...restaurants, 20 movie theaters and a 360-room hotel. Covering 5.2 million sq. ft., or the equivalent of 108 U.S. football fields, the West Edmonton Mall is twice the size of North America's runner-up shopping mall, the Del Amo Fashion Center in Torrance, Calif. The dimensions loom even more impressively in relation to Edmonton's population, only some...
Whatever other effect the CBS hubbub had, noted an ABC vice president, it "gave the impression of a shop being out of control." In this rival view, a new problem began to loom for Wyman and his lieutenants: "What was at stake here was the perception of the ability to govern." The attacks on Wyman's authority, in other words, were hurting, particularly as they gathered media attention...
While farmers fret about how to store the huge harvest, much tougher questions will loom as unavoidably as tarpaulin-covered mountains of wheat. The unsentimental truth is that America's farm industry, once a source of pride and power, has become an economic burden. Because so many other countries have improved their agricultural output, maintaining America's vast farming capacity is now a costly exercise in excess. During fiscal 1986 the expense to taxpayers for supporting farm programs will reach, according to the Government's estimates, $24 billion -- a 36% increase over last year. As exports shrivel and imports increase...
...hope," Miyake remarked toward the end of the Tokyo shows, "that my contemporaries and I will be the last to have to go to Paris." With Hishinuma and Onozuka, Kumagai and Takayuki Mori bidding to loom large on the Eastern horizon, it might be wise for everyone to start rearranging travel plans right...