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...Sheila, the Christian Jungle Girl, rushes up to check a cue. Sound men and stagehands circulate. Buster the Show Dog signs autographs, in the person of Actor Tom Keith, who also does the voices of Father Finian and Timmy, the Sad Rich Boy, motor and siren noises and dandy skyrocket effects...
When Doug Flutie was at Boston College, for example, the national television exposure the Eagles received caused out-of-state applications to skyrocket...
...There's a difference between talk and performance," Dukakis replied, citing his support for presumptive sentencing and the expansion of state prison space. He said the King administration, despite its rhetoric about tough criminal justice policies, had permitted the state's crime rate to "skyrocket...
...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...