Word: rising
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...expensive fossil fuels as fast as they can. Wood is already stacked high against nearly every house, ready to be fed to wood-burning stoves and fireplaces this winter, when the temperature, as it always does, will drop to 20° below and the cost of heating oil will rise to 90? per gal., about twice as much as last year...
...revisionist group of economists, eclectic and unorthodox, is on the rise, and they have provocative views about what has mucked up the economy and how to start fixing it. These academics, still in their 30s or early 40s, admit to many more questions than answers and are sometimes unfairly dismissed by their more traditionalist colleagues as "N.C.s" (Neanderthal Conservatives). Hardly Neanderthal, they are instead moderate, pragmatic economists of the late 1970s who are bringing fresh air, and fresh hope, to the dismal science. Says Rudolph Penner, head of tax-policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute: "The exciting ideas...
...later when it draws interest or dividends). Instead, they would pay taxes on only the money they spent, thus creating a powerful incentive for saving. Impossible? Not at all, says Boskin, who adds that since interest and dividend payments also would be tax exempt, U.S. capital accumulation would rise to new highs, thus revitalizing the private sector of the economy...
...rescue operation since World War II, prevented the death toll from being even worse. For 84 straight hours, eight helicopters, six naval vessels, and volunteer commercial ships ranged over 10,000 sq. mi., rescuing 136 sailors. When helicopters spotted survivors in the water, the choppers had to drop and rise like yo-yos, trying to get in synchronization with the giant waves. The boats' tall masts made it impossible to pluck yachtsmen from the decks. "The idea of jumping into those huge seas was appalling," said Frank Worley, a crewman on Camargue. In the end, we were all pushed...
Most commonly, lawyers who knew politicians. Some rise above their own human limitations, but more do not. Mostly, they are ordinary men and women, coping fitfully with the failings of others, the endless procession of broken promises and brutal acts that are the daily business of the courts...