Word: upward
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...copyright fees charged by publishing companies--which are responsible for most of the sourcebooks' high prices--have been on an upward trend for the last four years, Witt said...
Unfortunately, many may find much of it reader-proof as well. With so much going on -- premise piling upon premise, coincidence upon coincidence -- the point of it all begins to grow muzzy. As the edifice of Irving's invention rears ever upward, the people who inhabit it all begin to look as small as Dr. Daruwalla's dwarfs...
...lieutenant loses his legs. A certain horror attends the explosions and deaths but so does a strong feeling that things here are happening by the book. As indeed they are. The grunts have not died in vain: they have died as a plot device, to facilitate Gump's upward float -- and the film's apparent message: act decent, stay positive (brains optional), and everything will be fine...
Meanwhile, at the U.N., Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali was revising his figures upward as he urged a massive relief effort. The early estimate was $274 million, but "at this very moment, as I am speaking," he said on Friday, "Rwanda's needs are constantly growing." He put the new figure at $434 million, but who could precisely calculate the cost of a catastrophe that $ kept growing? That same day, U.N. relief agencies were busy redrawing their maps after 200,000 more refugees crossed the northwest frontier into Zaire in just 24 hours...
...this upward blip an accident or a reward for good behavior? Gill does not know for sure, and neither, at this point, do the many observers who are pondering what has become the auto industry's most intriguing question: Will the era of skinned customers give way to the age of the golden fleeced...