Word: soared
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Third (1985) harks back to Bach in a tour de force of stylistic synthesis, while the 1988 Fourth (which, confusingly, the composer also calls his Symphony No. 5) takes an unfinished work by Mahler as its launching pad. Riccardo Chailly and the Amsterdam Concertgebouw achieve lift-off and soar in both...
...only squeezing out cut-rate foreign "clones," but they are also whipping American consumers into a PC-buying frenzy. Compaq, which shipped 200,000 machines in September alone, reported record third- quarter sales last week. Apple, which has been whittling down its hefty margins, watched its income soar 71% during the past year...
...Pountney are also aboard -- manages to embrace not only the explorer's first trip to the New World but also the electric dreams of Stephen Hawking, the arrival of aliens on Earth during the Ice Age, and humanity's conquest of space. Characters sing suspended in outer space, sets soar through the air like rocket ships, and the hydraulic stage heaves like waves in a storm, propelling the extraterrestrials and Columbus' crew alike toward their unknown destinations. With a commissioning fee to Glass of $325,000 (about half of which went for expenses), The Voyage already ranks...
...Dean watches his computer screen, the levels of carbon dioxide and other wastes in their blood begin to drop. Blood pressure falls. Among the more advanced students, a surge of naturally induced biochemical relaxants sweeps through the blood vessels and permeates the body. Interferon levels begin to soar. Neurotransmitters in the brain return to normal. This is the effect that Dean and hundreds of other physicians before him have worked so hard to achieve. By harnessing the powers of the mind, the body is healing itself...
...past eight years, Sergei Bubka's grip on the pole vault has been so unrelenting that every competition he enters becomes not a question of who will win but how high Bubka will soar...