Word: soar
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...engine has a diameter of nearly three feet," he said, "whereas a cruise missile is roughly one-third that size." Assistant Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter and his deputy Mitch Wallerstein signed off on the deal. Wallerstein circulated a memo predicting that AlliedSignal's sales to China might soar to 2,000 engines. The company quickly disavowed Wallerstein's numbers as unrealistic after critics within the Department of Defense began questioning China's need for so many jet trainers...
...current outlay is more than $22 billion each year, up 16% from 1990, according to Leading Edge Reports, a research firm based in Cleveland, Ohio. The figure is well in excess of the amount spent on the nation's police departments. By 1996 the expenditure is expected to soar another 35%, to nearly $31 billion...
...profits, thanks to the porous border with the Dominican Republic. The reality of oil-embargoed Haiti is nowhere more evident than in the capital of Port-au-Prince, which suffers from traffic jams. Though the brightly colored "tap tap" jitneys used by the poor are disappearing as gas prices soar, the military and the monied still manage to race around town in their Range Rovers and Toyotas tanked up on $150 of smuggled fuel. "The embargo exists in name only. They sell gasoline like chocolate bars on the streets," says an angry Senator Christopher Dodd, just back from a trip...
There is something so tenebrous, so portentous, so downright antagonistic about Alfred Schnittke's music that it is almost a wonder anybody either performs it or listens to it. In Schnittke's dark, Russo-Germanic artistic universe, strings do not soar, they brood; woodwinds do not chirp, they protest; brass does not shine, it glowers. Created in the caldron of Central Europe, his music speaks of epic battles and terrible defeats; it is Kutuzov and Napoleon at Borodino, Von Paulus at Stalingrad. Why, then, is it suddenly so popular...
...Francisco Franco decades ago was "bad" and "may not be worthy of sport." The same day, in a rehearsal of an attempt to outdo the melodrama of 1992 in Barcelona -- when an archer ignited the Olympic flame with a streaking arrow -- Norwegian ski jumper Ole Gunnar Fidjestol sought to soar down the slope and vault into the air as one of the final bearers of the Olympic flame on its journey to Lillehammer. But he crashed askew, incurring a concussion and dropping out of his place of honor. The privilege went to Stein Gruben, who brought the stunt off stirringly...