Word: rising
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Once, there was a wider and more deafening metallic overture in town, one that used to rise with the sun, part of the song that Walt Whitman used to "hear America singing...those of mechanics...blithe and strong." The steam trains came around the bend behind the houses and doubled their strokes up the slope, and the sound shook the windowpanes. But in a blink they were extinct. Our creamery went silent. So did the big diesel electric generators that pumped through the cold winter nights. Maybe it all is good. But the memories are so intimate and gratifying...
...Coke discloses that a pair of garage scientists has duplicated its famous syrup and is selling the formula worldwide. Warren Buffett, proclaiming that the company is without intrinsic value, dumps his stake. Coke shares rise anyway as the company, one of the biggest in the major-stock indexes, benefits from the mindless buying of stock-index funds. The Dow is up 400 points...
...explanation for this policy of ecclesiastical entrepreneurism lies partly in the Mormons' early experience of ostracism. Brigham Young wrote 150 years ago that "the kingdom of God cannot rise independent of Gentile nations until we produce, manufacture, and make every article of use, convenience or necessity among our people." By the time the covered wagons and handcarts had concluded their westward roll, geographic isolation had reinforced social exclusion: the Mormons' camp on the Great Salt Lake was 800 miles from the nearest settlement. Says Senator Bob Bennett, whose grandfather was a President: "In Young's day the church...
...economy right now. It's the future they're worried about. Everybody from the federal government to the fully invested cabdriver is laying plans for the downturn, or even the crash they fear is coming. But not quite yet: encouraged by today's report of an unalarming 0.8 percent rise in wages and benefits for the April-June quarter, the Dow was up another 53.42 points for a new record close...
...artist--drew 558,000 visitors to his retrospective at the National Gallery.) That same year O'Keeffe's Black Hollyhock with Blue Larkspur, 1929, was sold at auction for the artist's record of $1.98 million. In the decade since, her paintings have seen the curve of descent and rise that the art market, in general, has known. "Now O'Keeffe's values are picking up," says Andrew Schoelkopf, a senior vice president at Christie's in New York City. "She is hot again...