Word: rosing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...20th century U.S. examples to prove that "we are losing some of our innovative juice." In the 1950s, U.S. spending for research and development was rising at a brisk average rate of 14% a year, but in the entire four years from 1973 to 1977, R. and D. spending rose only a nearly invisible .8%. The Commerce Department issued 68,000 patents last year, down from 70,000 in 1967. Worse, 25,500 of the 1977 patents went to foreigners, vs. 14,700 ten years earlier; in the key field of business and accounting machines, the number of U.S. patents...
ONLY AFTERWARDS did the tour members' mood change. Most seemed relieved to have seen the grave, to know where their idol lay. He had sung to them when the world was fresh and bright, and he had kept singing when the greyness of middle-age rose all around, but finally he was silent, and they were left to face the future without the reassurance of his music. After visiting the grave most of the women visited Elvis shops, as though Elvis ash trays and posters and glasses would fill the void. They came away with armfuls of souvenirs...
Dukakis introduced the issue of health insurance and its chief advocate, Kennedy, to the front of the room. As the crowd hushed, Kennedy broke into his appeal, pointing to the illustrative charts behind him, reciting the facts and figures he has come to know cold since 1969. His voice rose and broke, and his face was pink in the TV camera floodlights, as he spilled a ballroom-full of Kennedy electricity...
Enormous quantities of CO2 have been belched into the atmosphere since the start of the Industrial Revolution. But only recently has the increase become a cause of concern. In the past 20 years, it rose almost as much as it did in the century before. These measurements, made by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography atop Mauna Loa volcano on the island of Hawaii, are confirmed by similar readings at locations as far-flung as the South Pole, Alaska and Samoa...
Such grudging language achieves a cumulative power. Markus has a painterly sense of detail, building up scenes with a deliberate eye for the nuances of her characters' gestures and speech. Her vignettes of Camp Rose Lake, lingerie stores and Miami condominiums evoke a world where pride and purpose survive only by virtue of a resilient will. - James Atlas