Word: soared
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Payoff. Washington so far has picked up 75%, or $175 million, of SST development costs, and the bill may well soar to $4 billion. The Government intends not only to recoup its money but also to repay the losing firms' investment through still unspecified production royalties. Boeing has poured in $30 million of its own, has 2,400 Seattle technicians at work on the project. Lockheed has invested nearly $31 million in ten years of research and facilities for 1,900 engineers and other experts. In the engine competition, G.E. has spent $20 million, United Aircraft about $15 million...
...strange dynamics of the umbilical cord in the vacuum of space. At one point, the cord wrapped itself around him. "The snake's all over me!" shouted the surprised astronaut. For still unexplained reasons, Cernan-like Ed White before him-had to struggle constantly against a tendency to soar above the spacecraft at the end of his cord...
...Buddha seem to float over Bangkok scarcely touched by the blare of traffic, the neon slashes of bars and the ragged hurly-burly of mainland Southeast Asia's largest city. So too does the Kingdom of Thailand, proud heir to virtually seven centuries of uninterrupted independence, seem to soar above the roiling troubles of the region all around it. Neighboring Laos is half in Communist hands, Cambodia hapless host to the Viet Cong, Burma a xenophobic military backwater. The Chinese talons are less than 100 miles away, North Viet Nam a bare 20 minutes as the U.S. fighter-bombers...
Fountains for Pleasure. By inclination, James Rorimer was equally the scholar, with a liking for privacy, but his position as head of the Met placed him at the epicenter of the museum explosion that saw the Met's attendance during his decade of direction soar to more than 7,000,000 visitors annually. In response, Rorimer turned builder. He added a 150,000-volume art library, reopened 43 newly air-conditioned galleries, expanded exhibition space by 41% to a total of 20 acres. All the while, he had to preside over a staff of 600 and administer a budget...
...bets are down: the U.S. is relying more heavily than ever on college education to shape its destiny. To get into college, kids claw for high marks even in grade school. Parents scratch for dollars, plunge into debt. State taxes soar. Yet how the bet comes out depends on solitary teachers in secluded classrooms?and the number of bored, hostile and inadequate college teachers adds up to something between a serious concern and an outright scandal...