Word: risen
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...DreamWorks animation team seems to have risen to the challenge, combining an opulent style with extensive use of computer-generated effects to re-create the splendor of the ancient world. Almost all 1,192 shots in the 90-min. film include effects elements, whether it's a sprinkling of computer-generated desert dust or the vaporous Angel of Death. Some scenes would be virtually impossible to draw by hand, such as the flight of more than 16,000 Hebrews from Egypt and the spectacular 4-min. parting of the Red Sea--a sequence that is taking an estimated...
...only four years, he has risen to the very top of his sport and can take aim at the Olympics with confidence from his strong record of success in the collegiate ranks...
Stephen Moore, director of fiscal-policy studies for the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank, is more exuberant. Government projections, he notes, are based on a 4% yearly increase in tax revenues--but, in fact, revenues have risen an average of 7% for the past five or six years. If that continues, he says, "you start getting very enormous budget surpluses very quickly": $40 billion to $50 billion this year, "well over $150 billion by the year...
JONESBORO, Ark.: The death count has risen to five in Arkansas after two camouflage-clad boys -- aged 11 and 13 -- opened fire on middle school students assembling for a fire alarm Tuesday. Eleven others are wounded...
Unless, of course, you think we're fast approaching a market top. My best Wall Street sources are in awe at how far stocks have risen in the past three years, and privately many say they are bracing for a fall. They won't necessarily be right. But the tough job scene for their ilk is evidence of their conviction. Keeping down head count in good times may be a grim new reality. But at some level it represents Wall Street's collective stab at timing the market...