Word: upturning
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...suspicious of real estate industry hope and hype, listen to Barbara Allen, housing-industry analyst for Kidder, Peabody: "It's more than a little upturn. It's quite powerful, and it is across the country. In Chicago orders in the resale market for the first two months of the year were up smartly. In St. Louis the place is absolutely booming." Realtors who were doing the crosswords a month ago now have waiting rooms full of eager clients...
Cambridge has experienced a sharp upturn in bank robberies during the past three months, with more heists occuring since January than in all of 1989, police officials said yesterday...
With the end of the sterile political feuds, Quebec has witnessed a dramatic upturn in its economy. Three new office towers are adding nearly 2 million sq. ft. of office space to Montreal's thriving real estate market. Other construction -- apartments, condominiums, new hotels -- is altering the Montreal skyline so fast that photographs taken only a year ago are already outdated. In Quebec City the building of a new downtown convention center and hotel complex has left the old historic quarter essentially unchanged. Hemmed in by the St. Lawrence River on the south and its ancient walls elsewhere, vieux Quebec...
This context helps explain why the MDC reacted with such seemingly unprovoked ire to the prospect of students celebrating on the banks of the Charles. What is a traditional celebration in the city now seems terrifying. There has been no increase in unruly behavior, no upturn in arrests. There has been a change in perception. That change has come about because of a new conception of what public events should be like. It is a pattern which can be traced across the country...
...budget was already in deficit. It took more than a year for Heller to convince Kennedy and two more years before a skeptical Congress came around. But once the tax cut was passed in 1964, the economy entered what now seems to have been a golden age. The upturn that began in 1961 continued for 100 months, still a record, while unemployment shriveled and inflation remained...