Word: soared
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...abroad and anxious about lost lives, opposition to the deployment is natural. Somalia is still a dangerous, even deadly place. And the time frame for a U.S. withdrawal is uncertain at best. The chorus of voices calling for the troops to come home could, nourished by these natural fears, soar to a cacophony. But bringing our troops home now would be a tragic mistake...
...Jersey, Virginia and Texas, they're fighting over guns. In Washington. Detroit and L.A. they're fighting with guns. As homicide rates soar, the battle over who should be able to own what kind of gun continues, with no winner in sight. Just a lot of losers...
...WONDER JO HARRIS, 79, IS FURIOUS about the price of prescription drugs. In the past two years the Montana widow has seen the cost of her medications soar, including a 50% jump in the price of the Voltaren tablets she takes for arthritis pain, which rose to $89.95 for a month's supply of 60 pills. "I feel like they rob me without a gun," Harris says. "When I paid the drugstore clerk, I told him, 'You know Bill Clinton's watching you, don't you?' I believe the guy will try to do something about this. I sure hope...
...seems to inspire mothers to nuzzle their infants. Scientists speculate that oxytocin might encourage similar cuddling between adult women and men. The versatile chemical may also enhance orgasms. In one study of men, oxytocin increased to three to five times its normal level during climax, and it may soar even higher in women...
...about building comedy or character. Though this off-Broadway production, handsomely designed by Loren Sherman, boasts two movie-marquee names -- bossy Marcia Gay Harden, frazzled Julie Hagerty -- it is Frank Whaley (the kid at the diner in Hoffa) who carries the burden of the play and almost makes it soar. He masks an artist's passion in beguiling nonchalance...