Word: riser
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fastest riser on record," says Ron Moore, an astronomer at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. So fast, in fact, that astronomers are betting on 1990 or perhaps even later this year, instead of 1991, as the beginning of the maximum. And what a maximum it could be. Despite the ferocity of the March flares, Moore warns, "this cycle is still in its early phase. It's got quite a way to go." Solar buffs are speculating it might approach the violence reached by the 1957-58 maximum, which touched off five disruptive geomagnetic superstorms and vivid...
Yesterday afternoon at Soldiers Field, the Harvard softball team proved that hitting slumps can affect others parts of the game as fast as a Roger Clemens' high-riser goes from fist to mitt. The host Crimson (5-6 overall, 1-3 Ivy) dropped two games, 7-2, 7-1, to the visitors from Boston College (12-3). Harvard has now lost five of its last six games...
Jesse enthusiastically had his watch halfway off before one of the schedulers rushed the pulpit in the name of modern political decency. The scheduler swung up the steps at the left of the small riser, but he was intercepted by the Reverend Thompson. Thompson had a weight advantage over the scheduler and placed himself between the frantic man and his mission...
Their problems start with some little do-it-yourself fix-ups: on a rotted stair riser and a front-door lock that sticks. Working on them, Walter somehow causes both the stairway and the entranceway to collapse. That says nothing about what happens to the chimney when he carelessly tosses a log into the second-floor fireplace. What termites and neglect have put asunder eventually requires a crew of 100 to set to rights. And what happens to all of them when Anna innocently plugs a kitchen appliance into the workers' heavy- equipment circuit one sunny morning both defies description...
Springborn has been an early riser for years, but there is now special urgency to his work as director of the Treasury's office of foreign-exchange operations. Since last week's meeting of finance ministers from the five largest industrial democracies, reining in the dollar has become a matter of passionate U.S. concern. Unlike stocks, bonds or even pork bellies, currencies are not traded in one or two large buildings in a few major cities. The foreign-exchange market is a worldwide network of private banks, linked by phones and computers, that buy and sell money round the clock...