Word: soaring
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...office. Of course, Reagan disrupted the trend by surviving his 1981 assassination attempt, only 69 days into office. The bullet lodged itself within a centimeter of his aorta, and only modern medicine saved him. (Instead, his theatrical grace and wit during the assassination incident caused his popularity to soar...
...Bush seemed to recognize that. He didn't give the best speech of his life, as Gore had, but it didn't have to be. The words didn't soar, but they performed what Bush evidently considered a more important task on this Post-Election Day 36 - they nudged the nation forward, to subjects long forgotten. Education. Social Security. Medicare. Prescription drugs. Tax relief. Foreign policy. The military. Common ground...
...males has been declining for decades. U.S. government figures show that from 1970 to 1996, as the number of bachelor's degrees earned by women increased 77%, the number earned by men rose 19%. Not all schools are feeling the imbalance; many elite colleges and universities have seen applications soar from both sexes. But the overall numbers, says Mortenson, should make us "wake up and see that boys are in trouble...
...solitary hobbies. He collected butterfly and moth specimens, assembled model airplanes from kits, began designing his own planes and at 15 won several national model-airplane contests. He took flying lessons, soloed at age 16 and trained as a fighter pilot during World War II. He learned to soar as a glider pilot while at Yale and in 1956 became the first American to win the World Soaring Championship...
...males has been declining for decades. U.S. government figures show that from 1970 to 1996, as the number of bachelor's degrees earned by women increased 77%, the number earned by men rose 19%. Not all schools are feeling the imbalance; many ?lite colleges and universities have seen applications soar from both sexes. But the overall numbers, says Mortenson, should make us "wake up and see that boys are in trouble...