Word: soaringly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from grounding McPhee's book, all this luggage helps it soar. Those who think they know quite enough, thank you, about Alaska are wrong. Not only is the area one of the last and largest stretches of true wilderness left on earth (and hence of atavistic concern); it is also the arena where the last act in a long American drama is being played out. McPhee characterizes the struggle as "the Dallas scenario versus the Sierra Club syndrome"-developers versus conservationists, with many conflicting interests between them. McPhee is no reflexive ecologist; he compares the Trans-Alaska Pipeline...
Genesis has been deservedly forgotten; one volume was more than enough. But Schwartz lives in lines that soar and sting: "I am my father's father,/ You are your children's guilt." The funny and unforgiving stories of The World Is a Wedding (1948) remain some of the best work in a genre that has shown the world what it felt like in the Depression to be young, Jewish, and lost, somewhere between the Old Country and the New Criticism...
...federal aid they have come-in a stampede. They have made such a run on the SBA farm loans that administrators who once budgeted their largesse at $750 million have had to go back to Congress and ask for $1.4 billion more-and the demand is expected to soar to $4.6 billion by next August. The SBA program itself faces ruin...
...conservative Likud coalition correctly argued that Israel was overdue for an economic cold-water treatment of some sort. In the wake of the 1973 war, Jerusalem's annual balance of payments deficit has ballooned from about $1 billion to $2.6 billion this year, causing total foreign indebtedness to soar to more than $10 billion. Meanwhile, an alarming rise in inflation (40% this year alone) has slowed real economic growth, from a 10% annual average to zero in 1977. Any thought of engineering a turnaround by expanding the Labor Party's elaborate, 29-year-old system of export subsidies...
...transported in sealed containers to a burial site in the Nevada desert. The task will take another year to complete and will cost about $8 million. To pull down an average-size commercial reactor today could conceivably cost as much as $100 million, and that cost is likely to soar in the years ahead...