Word: upward
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Earlier this year, political commentators laughed off Newi Gingrich's suggestion that homeless individuals could find upward mobility by acquiring laptops and joining the information age. Yet unlike most of the off-the-cuff comments which have cost the Speaker credibility over the past few months, this comment revealed part of the deeper structure of Republican plans for hegemony over the coming years. As the United States enters its post-industrial age, the conservative Congress is working hard to ensure continuing close ties with the builders of the information highway...
...fall, broad swaths of subtropical ocean can reach temperatures of 80øF or more. The warm, humid air above the ocean surface would tend to rise anyway, and when a low-pressure region drifts by, it's like taking the lid off a steaming pot. The air rushes upward, dumping its moisture and energy, which forces the winds to whirl ever faster. Meanwhile, down at the surface, more warm air rushes in to replace what's risen, and it shoots upward in turn. After a few days of this self-sustaining process, a low-pressure tropical depression can escalate into...
...this happening now? After a long upward curve, many kinds of serious crime declined sharply this year, but the public mood doesn't always fit the dips in the uniform crime report. And the enormous explosion in the U.S. inmate population--to 1.5 million, up 100% in 10 years--required roughly $20 billion in taxpayer outlays in fiscal 1994. When many law-abiding people can't afford cable TV, the thinking goes, why should convicted embezzlers...
...rocky shell but a series of hard "plates," perhaps 80 km thick and up to thousands of kilometers across, floating on a bed of partly molten rock. The mid-ocean ridges, geologists argued, were likely locations for planetary crust to be created: the new plate material would be pushed upward by forces from below before it settled back down to form the sea floor...
...another she says her green wrinkly dress, which is fastened at the shoulder with a safety pin, is made of something called "Belgian envelope paper." She is a delightfully luminous presence. Maybe it's her accent. Her voice has a musical lilt, and her statements often end with an upward lift, as if she were asking a question. Then again, maybe her otherworldliness has something to do with Iceland. Her ex-husband is named Thor (her current boyfriend, a British songwriter and performer, is named Tricky). She says Icelanders, partly because they live in a spacious, underpopulated country, are more...