Word: skyhigh
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...caseload continues to increase, and Morris says that if the proposed Sexual Preference Bill--prohibiting discrimination based on sexual preference--is passed by the state, it "would increase our caseload skyhigh...
...decades of the postwar years, highly favorable exchange rates made vacationing abroad, particularly in Europe, a bargain that more and more Americans could not resist. Then in the late '60s and into the '70s, the growing strength of foreign economies and a weakening dollar sent prices skyhigh, transforming the trip abroad into an expensive, even prohibitive luxury...
Dance clubs are jumping skyhigh. From New York's Ritz to Madame Wong's West in Los Angeles, the dead discos have been displaced. Gone are the glitterballs, replaced by giant video screens. Their new music? Ringing cash registers and everything from rap music to technopop. The First Avenue club in Minneapolis, for instance, attracts up to 1,200 patrons each night to its multilevel cavern of stages and dance floors, plus four giant screens and 15 video monitors integrated with computer graphics. A good club disc jockey keeps well ahead of radio, dropping a record when...
...Running a baseball team is like selling a book. If you put a good team on the field, the fans will come." Some fans thought Nelson knew more about pricing books than baseball teams. After all, before spirited bidding by several would-be buyers shot the Mets' price skyhigh, the American League Champion Baltimore Orioles recently changed hands for $12 million, or about half the Mets' ticket...