Word: upward
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...around, talking, drinking beer, watching as the bonfire bursts into a wall of heat and forces the crowd against the houses. ! Older people step back with the aplomb of suburbanites watching Fourth of July fireworks, while children gallop through the sparks. The crowd screams with pleasure when flames shoot upward and set ablaze the Union Jack atop the heap...
...resembling a vast white meringue, iced with 70 fruit- flavored minarets and topped off with dribbles of gold. Peppermint lampposts line walkways that are guarded by nine stone elephants, among the very few decorative items on the property that are not fiberglass. The sculptors made sure the trunks swooped upward, an Indian sign for good luck. "We're striving for authenticity," explains architect Francis Xavier Dumont, 34, "where guests will feel like they're visiting a land far away...
...hand- and footholds. For safety's sake, climbers wear helmets, are attached to emergency lines and work in teams. One partner on the ground mans his buddy's belaying line. In some places on the wall it is necessary to press one's face against the rock and inch upward clinging perilously to golf ball-size projections and toe-pinching crannies. Such realistic action thrills ascension aficionados. Says Ken Gerow, a Cornell graduate student who likes to scale real mountains when he has the chance: "Nothing trains you better for climbing than climbing...
...Jones average -- before recovering later in the day to post an overall 3% loss. "We knew it had to come sooner or later. Many of us just stood there blankly," said a floor dealer. Another market watcher described it as a "bottomless swamp." The market edged upward on Friday as bargain hunters poured in, but a new era of wariness had clearly arrived. THE MARKET THAT WAS DREAMING A DREAM, blared a headline in Nihon Keizai Shimbun, a financial daily...
...weak yen has been a prime culprit in Japan's trouble, raising the threat of inflation and putting upward pressure on interest rates. The yen has sagged largely because of the quickening outflow of Japan's immense cash hoard to other countries, where Japanese investors have found investments more lucrative or stable than at home. Says Nomura's Koo: "We got into this mess because Japanese investors were always moving money abroad." Example: Ito- Yokado, a Japanese supermarket chain, agreed last week to pay $400 million for a 75% stake in Southland Corp., the Dallas-based operator...