Word: soar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though these recommendations aim to expand energy supplies quickly, there is some doubt whether Congress will approve them all. The consumer-oriented Senate Commerce Committee seems likely to resist the proposal to deregulate new natural gas, for example because the measure may well cause gas prices to soar-despite Administration arguments. The recommendation to build offshore ports will provoke the opposition of legislators and Governors from East Coast states, who fear that oil spills will ruin their shorelines and wetlands...
...reaching reform plan aimed at pepping up the sluggish Soviet economy by loosening bureaucratic controls over the production system and the managers who actually turn out the goods. But none of these plans ever seem to go far enough, and Soviet citizens continue to ask why their economy cannot soar like their spaceships. They have reason: last year, Soviet output of goods and services rose less than 2%, the smallest gain in a decade. That contrasts with a 1972 rise of 9.7%, or 6.5% after subtracting price increases, in the U.S. gross national product. Now, predictably, the Soviets are embarking...
...which will pass close enough to Jupiter in December to send back pictures and data about the atmosphere, strong magnetic field and puzzling red spot of the giant planet. Because the new craft, like Pioneer 10, may break the sun's gravitational grasp after passing Jupiter and soar out of the solar system, it too has been equipped with a message to any alien civilization that might someday intercept it. Like its twin, Pioneer will carry a plaque showing two humans (a nude male and female) and giving other information-in symbols that NASA hopes are universal-about...
...major drain on Ogden was its Avondale Shipyards near New Orleans, which during the 1960s made unusually low bids to gain Navy-destroyer contracts and then saw costs soar. In 1969 the yard suffered a loss of $3.8 million. Ogden has since gathered the shipyard, its prosperous shipping business, which operates 20 vessels, and a stevedoring firm into a single transportation division, and last year the yard showed a small profit. Now Avondale expects to cash in big by helping to relieve the nation's growing fuel shortage. It is increasing production of liquefied-natural-gas tankers that sell...
Nationwide, dressmakers' production last year dropped 1%, and 6,500 jobs disappeared. As sales sag, costs soar. Wholesale buyers, after the midi misfire, are anxious to avoid stocking ,up on any one style. The result is that dressmakers have to offer greater variety to attract interest-at the expense of their profit margins...