Word: upward
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They are the disputatious representatives of a larger, basically positive phenomenon: a devolution of power not only upward toward supranational bodies and outward toward commonwealths and common markets but also downward toward freer, more autonomous units of administration that permit distinct societies to preserve their cultural identities and govern themselves as much as possible. That American buzz word empowerment -- and the European one, subsidiarity -- is being defined locally, regionally and globally all at the same time...
...plant and animal life. Natural or genetically enhanced organisms aid with environmental cleanup. A CFC-eating bacterium was recently found in sediments of the Potomac River. A basic laboratory for biotechnology and diagnostic medicine uses a heat- resistant enzyme derived from a bacterium native to Yellowstone hot springs. Upward of nearly $100 billion of annual economic activity is generated at this intersection of biotechnology and biological diversity. The potential is staggering, and it is easily sustainable because it is usually not necessary to destroy the biological resource to benefit from the particular desired molecule...
...address the concern of both Blacks in the underclass and white working-class voters. If affirmative action is to continue and aid to cities is to increase (and we believe both should happen), the costs must be shifted onto wealthier Americans. In short, this will require ending the largest upward income redistribution in history...
...morning in America anymore, but in Europe, with communism spent and the trans-Channel tunnel imminent, there is still just enough of the ; upward-and-onward spirit to produce a real old-fashioned (that is, circa 1970) fair in Seville -- although, in line with recent fashion, it is not called a world's fair but Expo...
Packed behind the pilot's seat in the Cessna, second in the jump order, I began to doubt my mission. I stared at the altimeter on my chest as the plane wore upward through the rapidly closing clouds. 1000 feet, 2000 feet, the ground looked too far but too close...