Word: skyrocketing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...North Carolinians will certainly welcome Bill Clinton?s moist eye (and wrinkled nose), and the attention and federal disaster monies he?ll bring with him. But with agricultural losses set to exceed $1 billion, rivers still on the rise, and the official death toll (now at 23) bound to skyrocket next week when those rivers finally recede, North Carolina?s disaster may have just begun...
Indeed, the fear of "getting Amazoned" is fueling a boom in business-to-business e-commerce, a $131 billion-a-year industry that Forrester Research projects will skyrocket to $1.5 trillion by 2003. Colossuses such as GE and Cisco have led the way with "procurement marketplaces": in-house purchasing systems to streamline transactions with their suppliers...
...money when you can do just as good a job, if not better, on your own? That was the question Hillsboro, Ore., computer consultant Larry Taylor, 40, and his friends asked themselves three years ago. Sick of sitting on the sidelines of a raging bull market, watching individual stocks skyrocket as their mutual funds crawled along, Taylor's crew decided to take matters into their own hands. Pooling assets, they chose a diversified portfolio of tech, pharmaceutical and manufacturing stocks and have enjoyed 30% annual returns ever since. "We got tired of seeing fund managers getting rich and fees getting...
...came the next performer amid adoring screams. While most of us at Harvard are mired in midterms hell, Tatyana Ali '02 ended her night by being carried offstage by two very buff male dancers. (If the Harvard libraries had such a service, the amount of studying that would surely skyrocket.) But the 20-year-old Ali has taken the semester off to tour with 'N SYNC, and her time was well spent...
...came the next performer amid adoring screams. While most of us at Harvard are mired in midterm hell, Tatyana Ali '02 ended her night by being carried offstage by two very buff male dancers. (If the Harvard libraries had such a service, the amount of studying that would surely skyrocket.) But the 20-year-old Ali has taken the semester off to tour with 'N SYNC, and her time was well spent...