Word: soaring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unnaturally ethereal pre-Raphaelite saint, with her haze of red hair and huge desperate eyes. Her feet scarcely seem to touch the ground. She appears moored to the earth by only the most fragile of bonds, ready at the slightest inclination to cast off her moorings and soar off the stage. It is perhaps fortunate for all concerned that her costume is as heavy...
...Olympic athlete no one will ever confuse with Pirmin or Katarina. Slogging where others soar, he was among the Games' engaging foot soldiers, competitors whose contribution is measured in texture and character more than in tenths of a point and hundredths of a second. Many are paupers. One of them, Bobsledder Albert Alexandre Louis Pierre of Monaco, is a prince. Their hopes are for modest rewards. Says Muniz, who happily finished five spots better than last: "None of us wants to be the 'agony of defeat...
Defying all expectations, health costs continue to soar. -- The Pentagon' s new buyer. -- De Benedetti raids Belgium...
...organization and delegate slates; all Hart has is a handful of volunteers and more than $1 million in leftover 1984 political debts. Even by the traditional standards of Democratic chaos and with the party's long history of bad karma, the step Hart was about to take seemed to soar to new heights of self-indulgent folly...
...fabulously rich in natural resources, ever end the cycle of war, disease and overpopulation that helps to keep it poor and famished? Most African governments, including those much less radical than Ethiopia, continue to be wedded to quasi-socialist, postcolonial economic policies that reduce agricultural productivity, even as populations soar and create a voracious demand for more food. "In contemporary Africa, both rural starvation and rising levels of urban employment are the outcome of a set of agricultural policies designed to subsidize the cost of living of urban consumers at the expense of rural producers," says Michael Lofchie, an Africa...