Word: skyrocketed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...while prayer in the schools hasn't gone over well in the courts, the abortion clinic bombers have been quite effective lately. Boston NOW reports that 10 percent of abortion clinics nationwide have been plagued by such terrorism, causing insurance rates at other clinics to skyrocket. Anti-abortion groups calling themselves "sidewalk counselors" have set themselves up in front of clinics around the country to brand the women entering and leaving with the name "baby killer...
Many Chinese fear that as a result, the costs of such basic items as rice and clothes will skyrocket. Hardest hit would be the country's 80 million urban workers, who still have less opportunity for earning extra money than the peasants. "That's all the Chinese talk about now," said a British teacher working at a major Peking university. Premier Zhao last week dismissed rumors of impending price rises as "street gossip," but the fact that the government has not revealed how and when the price strategy will go into effect only makes consumers more nervous...
...hotel, mall, and condominium complex has raised fears among neighborhood businessmen that they will be priced out of the market. Already, local shop owners are reporting large rent increases and they fear that costs will skyrocket once the upscale stores in the Charles project commence business...
...economic war as inflation has subsided and the unemployment rate has leveled off. But the current respite promises to be only temporary; the Guinness-proportion budget deficits insure that as the jobless rate creeps back down to a respectable level, the consumer price index will once again skyrocket...
...extension now under construction. Councilor David A. Wylie said last night that the owner of the company is probably trying to hold on to as much land in the area as possible, because when the subway extension opens, "his buildings will be on prime land and their value will skyrocket...