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...live, big artificial support payments for sugar beets are ruining the family farm. The foreign-owned sugar plants give contracts to a certain few corporate farms, paying them enormous sums per acre. Small and midsize family farms are disappearing at an alarming rate as land rents and property taxes skyrocket and the few corporate farms fight over every acre. The megafarms are pushing the fast-disappearing topsoil to the absolute limit. All this while the local sugar plant locked out longtime employees to force wage cuts. Here too we have spent millions of taxpayer dollars to pump lake water...
...induced and the result of industrial emissions into the air." The real debate is not whether the trend will continue, but how abruptly the temperature will rise. "Scientists are not sure whether world temperatures will rise linearly, "says Thompson, "or whether there's a threshold beyond which temperatures will skyrocket." Such dramatic warming periods, over as little as a decade, have already occurred in the history of the Earth. And if one were to occur again now, the ecological and social disruptions could be incendiary...
...addition, the number of Americans 85 or older is expected to skyrocket from 3.3 million today to 18.9 million by the year 2050. Studies have shown that the physiological problems associated with the low gravity of space travel--for instance, cardiovascular de-conditioning, balance problems, depressed immune response and, of course, disturbed sleep--parallel age-related problems...
...years. The entire cost of this monstrous public works project--the biggest engineering feat since the Panama Canal--is $10.8 billion; 70 percent being funded by the generous U.S. government after years of haggling and 30 percent by exploited Massachusetts tax payers watching the prices of highway tolls skyrocket over the years...
...usual keg party for a more sophisticated drinking atmosphere? Definitely. Could I kick my new habit of eating yummy Pane Romano avec Nutella that they serve at the Parisian cafe in Holyoke Center? Never. So maybe I should shop at Diesel, develop an accent, and let my attitude skyrocket. Or I could go a step further and do it the real way: take a semester off, rent a flat in London, and acquire a taste for Prada and Versace...