Word: upward
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Stern graduated with good grades from prestigious Boston University, and has assembled an unbroken onward-and-upward resume of better and better radio jobs ever since. Limbaugh dropped out of Southeast Missouri State after a year and had a nondescript disk-jockey and p.r. career, getting fired from five jobs during his 20s and 30s. Howard met his wife in college 19 years ago, married her four years later and proudly says he has been faithful to her. Alison Stern, the very picture of the cheerful, wholesome middle-American housewife, raises their three daughters, ages 9 months to 10 years...
Harris was Teacher of the Year, coordinator of the MIT-Wellesley Upward Bound program, and assisted in starting a program to help minority youngsters get into private schools. Harris is also a girl scout troop leader, an officer of the local chapter of the NAACP, a Cambridge Jaycee and a former president of a teacher's association...
...haven't heard that being mentioned," Murphy says of the possibility of promotion. "I'm sure I'm always interested in upward mobility in the police department as well as everyone else...
...lift it swiftly out of the water. I watched the goldfish as it lay tenuously in an iridescent arc, its tail and head hanging over the sides of the fragile circle. In a second it began to squirm and twitch. Tail and head arched spastically upward to meet the other, reversing the direction of its parabolic arc. The goldfish's contorted torso drilled through the water-weakened paper, slipped bodily through the loop in a fluorescent shimmer, and fell, like a leftover firecracker spark, into the water...
Until now, Matthews, which was essentially gutted and refitted, has undergone the most dramatic transformation. Gone is the dry wall surrounding the staircases--which hid a metal rail from the 1920s that has been uncovered, repainted and extended upward. Gone is the abstract wood sculpture from the 1960s. Gone are the rats (or so hope administrators...