Word: upward
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nation-state is also exploding upward, into larger units, notably the European Community. It has not eradicated national rivalries, or xenophobia, or protectionism, or the danger of international trade wars. But the historic fact is that Western Europe has learned the momentous lesson: that war and conquest no longer lead to economic prosperity. Bending sovereignty, states are increasingly joining to cope with such common problems as the environment, communications, nuclear proliferation and a whole range of issues that used to be "internal affairs" -- including human rights...
...shrinking. Before the onset of the recession in 1990, according to a survey by Timothy Smeeding of Syracuse University and Greg Duncan of the University of Michigan, "the middle class has decreased from about three-quarters of the population to about two-thirds." Some of the shrinkage resulted from upward mobility -- people earned their way into upper brackets. But most of the change has been downward...
...host of second-tier Democrats joined Paul E. Tsongas, the seemingly quixotic candidate who would prove to be astute in predicting the Bush decline. Bush's disapproval ratings, once in the single digits, swiftly spiraled upward...
Antarctica is uniquely suited for geological collection because upward ice motion combines with wind abrasion to bring meteorites to the surface in concentrated numbers. Over 13,000 samples have been gathered there by scientists from various nations...
...Sakai, pilot of a Zero fighter, "we looked down and saw some 60 enemy bombers and fighters neatly parked. They squatted there like sitting ducks. Our accuracy was phenomenal. The entire air base seemed to be rising into the air with the explosions. Great fires erupted, and smoke boiled upward...