Word: upward
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mistake, and it wrenched their quiet memorial out of control. Despite warnings of rough weather, they chose a point of land well out to sea and only 20 ft. above the ocean. That wasn't enough to protect them from the huge wave that exploded 25 ft. upward and knocked them into the water...
BOSTON--Maybe it wasn't the game to write home about. After the disastrous first stanza, which left the Harvard men's hockey team staring upward from a 4-0 hole against Boston College, it seemed like last night would be an evening to forget for the skaters...
...revenue raisers -- from national- park admission fees to gas and cigarette taxes -- can still be hiked by majority vote. Those levies, which will probably rise if Newt's other tax- cutting schemes become law, are the regressive ones, which hit the middle class and poor hardest. Make no mistake. Upward income redistribution -- leaving the less fortunate less protected -- is part of what Newt's revolution is about...
...billion, including private bank loans and $7 billion in credits from the U.S. and < Canada. That's in addition to a $6 billion currency swap fund that the U.S. already had in place to bolster Mexico in any currency crunch. News of that deal helped the peso move back upward and halted the accompanying downward swoop of the Mexican stock market...
...pressure of both mystery and reality that makes Poussin so unacademic. He was an idealist. The world he painted, in all its mythographic richness, was not fallen. Neither sin nor decay was part of it. The young man in The Inspiration of the Poet, circa 1631, glancing upward while the imperious hand of Apollo redirects his attention to the text in his hand and the muse Calliope gives him a level look of benign assessment, might as well be Poussin himself. The allegory unfolds in a luminous calm but is grounded by discreet observation: the relaxed pose of Apollo...