Word: upthrusts
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...movement. Last week in Geneva, the United Nations Economic and Social Council reported that the world's economic prospects have turned around sharply since 1962 because of unexpectedly strong consumer spending, and that "economic activity in the early months of 1963 was marked by the vigor of its upthrust." In Brussels, the Common Market's quarterly survey of businessmen's expectations found "a climate more favorable" than a few months...
...principle of the heart's "kick" is as simple as the thrust of a rocket: with each beat, blood rushes upward and strikes the aortic arch (where the great artery curves downward). The impact is great enough to give the whole body an upthrust. Almost simultaneously, acceleration of the blood directed downward by the aortic arch adds to the upthrust. When the descending blood slows down, there is a rebound effect which gives the body a downthrust, about half as intense as the earlier upthrust...
public and the U.S. Government the challenge of curbing the perennial upthrust on labor costs in some way that is fair to labor-but also fair to the public and in keeping with the interests of the nation...
...industry's failure to explain its case to the public. But behind the fog, the issues in the steel strike-whether an economy beset by price upcreep will be subjected to another inflationary steel settlement, whether an industry already pressed by foreign competition should accept another upthrust of wage costs, whether collective bargaining is a one-way or a two-way street-still loom in the background, confronting the U.S. Government and the U.S. public with a demand for thoughtful answers...
Actually earth heat itself is still the most important unknown of geophysics. The only known source of energy which is potent enough to contort the earth's surface with upthrust mountains, heat must be studied by the geophysicist in order to gauge rocks' conductivity...