Word: soar
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what a lovely war it will be! Market researcher Dataquest estimates that global sales of mobile phones, already astounding most analysts, will soar from 100 million handsets annually in 1997 to 360 million a year by 2002. Of that number, 15% to 20% are expected to be so-called smart phones that can handle data as well as voice traffic, a market that will rival today's volume of PC sales. "I foresee an absolutely huge future for the pretty amazing new stuff that's going to be added to the mobile phone," says Martin Heath, a telecommunications specialist...
...garde theater phenomenon tries to prepare would-be patrons with a set of ground rules: "1) Stand. 2) Dress down. 3) Look up. 4) Touch. 5) No rules." Here's why: the audience stands in a cavernous room for the entire hourlong show, while a dozen or so performers soar overhead. Suspended on wires, they swoop and twirl, climb the walls, bounce in and out of the crowd. There's wind and a rainstorm (you get wet), strobe-light effects and pounding music. By the end, the aggressive performers have coaxed many in the crowd to boogie along, completing...
...world's most respected guardian of the canon. For the RSC's new version of Cymbeline, the Bard's little-performed romance, artistic director Adrian Noble has lopped off nearly a third of the play and seasoned it with Japanese costumes and mannerisms. If the production doesn't quite soar, it's probably because the plot remains one of Shakespeare's messiest, with everything from a headless corpse to a guest appearance by the god Jupiter. Matthew Warchus' sleek, modern-dress version of Hamlet toys with the play as well, dropping entire characters (no Fortinbras), tossing in home movies...
Average temperatures in the city can soar beyond comfort level. Concrete has a way of getting quite...
...still a lot of chips to be checked, but even many of the suspect ones are programmed with manual overrides or "soft-landing" outcomes where safety is an issue. (Nonetheless, the Gartner Group estimates that litigation costs over Y2K service and product failures, both real and imagined, could soar to $1 trillion or more.) Duggan's forecast for the impact of Jan. 1, 2000, sounds like a tolerable weather report: "It's going to be like a couple of inches of snow that stays on the ground for a few days...