Word: upward
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...keyboard Richter leans backward at a precipitous angle, arms outstretched, head tossed back and gazing upward, as if toward heaven. The rapture suggested by such a pose separates Richter's artistry from that of his more earthbound contemporaries (although he can generate raw energy with the best of them -- just listen to his performance of the Schumann Toccata). Moreover, in the catholicity of his repertoire (far greater than Horowitz's) and the breadth of his interpretive insight, Richter leaves the competition behind...
...asking the most established and most age-graded upward they're the people who are the most conservative and the least gender-mixed," Winter says...
...apparent price difference is highly misleading. They say the cost of oil and coal should be adjusted to reflect uncertainties over supplies, price volatility and environmental damage; estimates for the pollution costs of coal, for example, start at 1 cents to 3 cents per KW-H and range upward...
...real and reasonably measured by the available tests. Their truly inflammatory notions are in what follows. While they acknowledge that intelligence is shaped by both heredity and environment, they say heredity plays the larger role -- perhaps 60%, perhaps more -- and insist that it's almost impossible to nudge IQ upward by much after the earliest stage of life. Government attempts to do so, like the Head Start education program, have been a failure. Until we know what, if anything, works at raising intellect, say Murray and Herrnstein, let's stop trying. The Bell Curve's explosive contentions detonate under...
Stocks and bonds fell sharply on Thursday as investors shied away from the markets, possibly because of fears of rising inflation and interest rates. The Commerce Department reported that the gross domestic product grew at a 4.1 percent rate in the second quarter. That was revised upward from a previous estimate of 3.8 percent growth and was much higher than analysts had expected. In addition, the Labor Department reported that there were 11,000 fewer new claims for state unemployment benefits last week -- another sign of growing business activity that could signal increased inflation. In response, the Dow Jones industrial...