Word: skyrocket
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Americans, who still pride themselves on producing the biggest and the best, made it a day of superlatives: the largest cherry pie (60 sq. ft.), in George, Wash.; the biggest firecracker (a 165-lb. skyrocket), in Vancouver, Wash.; the most mammoth fireworks display (33½ tons), in Washington, D.C.; and the biggest crowd (7 million), in New York City...
They said they fear rents would skyrocket after the renovations were completed...
Nowhere do the vicissitudes of the nation's business cycle show more starkly than in the Motor City and its environs. In times of economic hardship, unemployment and crime skyrocket; in times of prosperity, workers of different races and backgrounds, thrown together on assembly lines in a one-industry region, vent their frustrations in racial hatred and violence...
...firm's founder, was taking a calculated risk that business would somehow pick up again. But that came naturally to a man with a stable of 25 race horses and a reputation for patience, even under pressure. His prescience paid off when oil prices started to skyrocket at the end of 1973. Suddenly, energy projects that had previously seemed uneconomic looked profitable, and Fluor had skilled engineers ready to do the work. The jobs were immense: a $1.4 billion contract to build twelve pumping stations and the Valdez terminal for the trans-Alaska pipeline, for example...
...equivocation of MFA policy will soon become untenable. When gold reserves run out, the government will have to choose between alienating small proprietors by cutting off credit and subsidies; or betraying its working class following by allowing food prices to skyrocket while clamping down on wages. Either way, any existing revolutionary consensus will come apart and the outcome is uncertain...