Word: skyrocketing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with almost everything else these days, the most promising future growth area for the low-orbit-satellite phone market will be the Internet. If the Net keeps expanding at its current pace, companies figure that demand for digital connections will skyrocket. Currently, firms in the U.S. pay about $1,000 a month for a 1.5 megabit-per-second pipeline to the Internet. Eventually, satellites should be able to provide an equivalent uplink at one-tenth the cost. Some analysts even see rates plummeting to $50 a month in the future...
What they really are is strictly subject to personal opinion, but one thing is certain: the Oscars are big business. Films have seen their profits skyrocket on the basis of nominations and gold statuettes. Careers have been made and destroyed by the whims of the Academy...
...himself with the categories. By logging-in a second time within the same week under a new name, he says he would usually get a game with some of the same categories that he had played before. Since the student already knew those answers, he says his score would skyrocket...
...product. Apparently high doses of phenolphthalein, Ex-Lax's active ingredient, causes cancer in laboratory animals. Novartis said it was "obviously disappointed," but promised that a reformulated Ex-Lax derived from the senna plant would be on store shelves in 60 days. Expect coffee and bran muffin futures to skyrocket when Wall Street's big players get back from the beach...
...idea for the O.J. Civil Trial came about when Judge Hiroshi Fujisaki barred cameras from his courtroom during the current Simpson case. E! had watched its ratings skyrocket during the network's gavel-to-gavel coverage of the criminal trial, and executives reasoned that the daily dramatizations would be the best way to give viewers their O.J. fix. "The re-enactments take people inside the courtroom," defends John Rieber, E!'s programming vice president, "and that's where they want to be." Indeed, the O.J. Civil Trial has doubled E!'s audience for the 8 p.m. time slot...