Word: soared
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...discounts on attractive new models, have begun returning to showroom floors. Betting that the turnaround will continue, Detroit has planned its busiest third-quarter production schedule in six years. The biggest employment gains have come in health care, which remains a necessity for Americans even as medical costs soar into the stratosphere. In a similar way, people's demands for education and other public services have boosted jobs in state and local governments even though many are running up big deficits to meet voters' needs...
Robert, a choral music concentrator in Dunster House, says he is selling all four of his coveted tickets for $95 a piece, although he would never consider forking out that much for them. He says he has heard that prices soar up to $100 per ticket the week before...
...film -- about a Reno singer (Whoopi Goldberg) finding refuge from her gangster lover (Harvey Keitel) in a dilapidated convent run by staid Maggie Smith -- allows no room for irony, vagrant inspiration or air. There's something piquant about the look of Whoopi in a wimple, but the star must soar or sink with the vehicle, and this one is a bathysphere. Despite a nice turn by Kathy Najimy as a criminally chirpy nun and some inventive charts by ace arranger Marc Shaiman, Sister Act has corporate fingerprints smudging its smiling face...
Greater government enforcement of drug laws has caused prices to soar, making students wary of buying on the streets. The Harvard drug of choice, marijuana, can cost between $200 and $400 per ounce, and says one senior, "You're getting pretty bad stuff...
After all, who could fail to be inspired by lines like "If you don't try, you can't fail" or "Your thoughts can't soar if you think like a turkey." Certainly it is not possible to resist the wit behind such zingers as "apartment hunting...scouring for a pad" or "Shakespeare ode much to publishers," And even the greatest literature cannot match such insights into the humanity as "Laughter is the shock absorber of life's blows" or "No one is a failure who is enjoying life...