Word: skyward
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...ASIA Pakistan: Ally and Enemy China: Great Leap Skyward Letter from Afghanistan...
...ASIA Pakistan: Ally and Enemy China: Great Leap Skyward Letter from Afghanistan...
Bond traders can be a perverse group. A whiff of economic recovery had Wall Street pushing bond yields skyward (and prices downward) even before last week's report that GDP grew at a surprisingly strong annual rate of 2.4% in the second quarter. Now even stronger growth is widely expected the rest of this year. Since the middle of June, the yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury bond has surged to nearly 4.5% from 3.1%--a staggering reversal that is shutting down mortgage refinancings and forcing up business borrowing costs. If the trend persists much longer, these higher rates...
...watched as one of the battleships, perhaps the Arizona, went up in flames, soon blackened by huge funnels of clouds shooting skyward. The West Virginia and the California started to explode in a chain reaction. I soon heard the rat-tat-tat of machine guns and squads of planes starting to dive-bomb the destroyers and cruisers nearest shore. I saw a large plane fly low over the water from the direction of Honolulu into battleship row and drop a torpedo toward the middle of the ships. The plane then turned toward Aiea, my hometown, hugging the surface...
...showdown: five Israeli commandos vs. one Palestinian--the woman, reincarnated as a Ninja babe. When the marksmen fire their Uzis at her, she twirls skyward, the bullets harmlessly haloing her head. She disarms two of the men with flying darts, evaporates two more with grenades, does in the fifth Goliath with her slingshot and destroys an Israeli helicopter with a metal boomerang shaped like the state of Palestine. Ninja! Gotcha! Intifadeh...