Word: skywards
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Never mind that the snap was high and that holder Jared Chupaila had to reach skyward to set it down where Giampaolo could hit it straight. Never mind that Giampaolo's kick was on its last legs as it cleared the crossbar by a cool six inches...
WHAT KILLED THE BOOM Wildly rich, Japanese investors splurged on stocks and drove real estate prices skyward. The speculative bubble in the financial markets and real estate popped loudly in the early 1990s and took the economy down with it. Other competitors closed the productivity gap. Now lifetime employment may be a thing of the past...
...also that year that we all caught comet fever; Halley's had come to town. For several weeks we endured arctic temperatures, looking skyward until our necks were sore. Everyone ooed and ahhed, and I think I was the only kid in town who admitted to not being able to see the damn thing. Finally, one frigid night I looked through the telescope at the high school and saw a pea-sized white blob. I'm told it was the comet, but it looked more like frost on the lens to me. I knew from school that we wouldn...
...this time scanning the heavens for Hale-Bopp. Dining halls had been abuzz with tales of sightings for days, and Harvard's armchair astronomers regaled whoever would listen with hyperbole and an occasional fact. Not wanting to miss out on the chance of four millennia, I turned my eyes skyward yet again. The same pea-sized white blob hung in the sky, and it was only after I cleaned my eyeglasses that I was convinced it was indeed a comet and not a piece of lint from the laundry room--piece of lint whose death toll was presently...
...documents may help, tobacco has an excellent track record in litigation, hardly losing a case. In the end, Liggett's move might more than anything provide a push for the other companies to settle. Investors believe lifting the threat of costly litigation would send the valuation of tobacco rocketing skyward -- Philip Morris stock rose $6 in February on rumors that a deal might be near. Wall Street seemed pleased by the settlement news: Brooke Group, the parent company of Liggett, rose 5/8 to 47/8, while Philip Morris tumbled 61/8 to 1157/8 and RJR Nabisco fell 3/4 to 311/2. But Philip...