Word: soaring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During the past four years the American dollar has sagged deeper and deeper, while the price of gold tended to soar higher and higher. In the past two weeks it has been the other way round. Gold has lurched lower, as the dollar has risen...
This fall, you followed Jeff and Larry Grafstein as they traveled with the football team to West Point, Philadelphia and the brink of an Ivy Championship. You and Mike Bass watched the women's soccer team soar to a third-place finish in the nation, and you charted the rejuvenation of the men's soccer team with Mark Doctoroff, along with reading his voluminous coverage of House Football...
...left for inflation-battered Americans is about to disappear. Riddled by revenue losses, the airlines declared a cease-fire last week in their price war on transcontinental routes. First, Eastern revealed that beginning in January its lowest advance-purchase round-trip fare between New York and Los Angeles would soar by 70%, from $268 to $455. Soon after, American and United announced similar hikes, and TWA is expected to follow them this week...
Voyager 1 will not be around for that spectacle. After sweeping within 4,000 km (2,500 miles) of Titan, the spacecraft will plunge through the plane of Saturn's rings, soar past the moon Tethys, and on Nov. 12 come to within 124,000 km (77,174 miles) of the planet's cloud tops. Whipped by Saturn's gravity, the spacecraft will then swing quickly up and around the planet, photograph other moons, make a film of Saturn's swiftly moving clouds and rings and, finally, head out of the solar system...
...tanker traffic were interrupted through the Strait of Hormuz at the southern end of the Persian Gulf. That 36-mile-wide channel has been the lifeline for some 40% of the non-Communist world's total supply. Experts fear that the price of oil could soar beyond $100 per bbl., triple the current price, if the war were to widen or the strait were to be closed...