Word: rising
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...industry may be mired in a three-year slump, but Big Oil still thinks big. Convinced that crude prices will rise again and anticipating a major new pool of natural gas, Shell Oil last week launched "Bullwinkle," a lighthearted name for the tallest ever offshore oil-drilling and -production...
...hopping onstage, they maintain a wary reserve off-hours. Their English is lilting, halting, and political questions are turned aside for fear of reprisals back home. Five minutes before curtain, a hush falls over the backstage. They gather for a nightly ritual, heads bent in prayer. Soft voices rise and fall in a Zulu chant. In the corridor, band members stop short and bow their heads. The doorman, a flush-cheeked Irishman, respectfully removes his cap. "I've never seen this kind of dedication," he murmurs...
...reversals. About once every million years, magnetic north and south inexplicably exchange places. Scientists do not understand whether this phenomenon comes about gradually, say, over thousands of years, or all at once. One idea, advanced in recent years, is that turbulent eddies within the core-mantle boundary somehow give rise to electromagnetic disturbances that trigger the reversals. A rain of iron particles, say some scientists, might supply the energy to keep the eddies churning...
...latest battle of Manassas began in earnest last January when Hazel/ Peterson Co., the largest land developers in northern Virginia, joined Edward DeBartolo, the nation's biggest shopping-center developer, to propose the mall, complete with new highway intersections, commuter parking lots and high- rise office buildings. Down came a barrage of hostile fire from outraged Civil War buffs, including Actor Charlton Heston and former White House Spokesman Jody Powell, a descendant of nine Manassas veterans. Ground where 4,200 soldiers gave their lives, say the preservationists, should not be overwhelmed by noise, traffic and pollution from...
Before courtroom testimony had been completed this spring, Judge Garrity dismissed Walters' charges against the two supervisors--to whom she had initially complained--ruling that the supervisors' conduct "does not rise to the level of outrageous and extreme conduct which is required for the liability of individuals...