Word: soaring
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...alone. In recent years, vertiginous rises in costs have caused many large employers to scale back or eliminate their workers’ health insurance options. A report released by the National Coalition on Health Care last May predicted the average monthly health insurance premium for family coverage would soar into the four-figure range by 2006. Meanwhile, in Medicare managed-care plans—which account for two of the alternatives suggested by UHS Director David S. Rosenthal ’59 in last month’s warning letter—82 percent of patients were required to make...
...years ago, ex-Pavement guitarist Spiral Stairs released All This Sounds Gas, a wonderfully post-indie record that was equal parts Neil Young and early U2. Comprised of shaky-yet-deeply-felt lyrics and guitar lines that lazily pointed at the sky without ever gathering the momentum to soar, the music lodged in the brain despite its modest ambitions...
Songs on Bows are cinematic—thick, sweeping layers of piano, guitar and organ produce compelling vignettes that dwarf the simplicity of lyrics. Hamilton Leithauser’s vocals glide and soar behind a scratchy veil, adding poignancy to the mundane actions and thoughts he sings about. On break-up lament “The North Pole,” he sounds on the verge of shattering as he howls, “Everybody knows / That’s the way it goes.” But the childlike “New Year’s Eve?...
Bush's troubles all came together in the space of a month, a perfect winter storm. The President had had a spectacular December, watching his ratings soar as Saddam Hussein was captured, the economy grew at 4% and he pulled a Medicare bill out of his hat in the final days of the last session of Congress. Howard Dean, meanwhile, appeared to have won the hearts of Democrats--if not the minds--which promised the campaign of Karl Rove's dreams...
...when pressed, he can celebrate. For a wonderful ?CBS SM? show dedicated to New York City, Geist reported on Pale Male, the red tailed hawk who has lived for the past decade on a window ledge in a Central Park apartment house. Geist relaxed and let the story soar with its subject...