Word: upward
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...they will be astounded by the abrupt changes in the forms of political life that occurred during the punctuated evolution of the period. Mute and spineless holdovers from pre-glasnost days slithered into obscurity and were replaced by frothing creatures distinguished by wide-open mouths and fists thrust upward. Two new autobiographies, published this month in vivid counterpoint, provide a revealing glimpse of this great Soviet transition...
...first set went down to the wire, as Engel and Nastase each had breaks. With the score 4-4, Engel broke Nastase's serve again and held serve to win the set. After the set, Nastase rubbed his rotund belly and looked upward...
...members of Rho Nu Chapter of AOA. The first of all traditionally Black Greek-lettered fraternities, AOA has a long and distinguished history of public service. Despite its relative youth, Rho Nu Chapter has already begun a large-scale involvement with the Salvation Army, local churches and the Upward Bound programs of Harvard and MIT. The most recent line will continue AOA's commitment to serving the Cambridge community...
...nearly four years as the top-rated morning show, Today has slipped in the past six weeks to No. 2, behind ABC's Good Morning America. CBS, in the meantime, has dumped its morning co-anchor, Kathleen Sullivan -- oddly, just when the program's third-place ratings were inching upward. Sullivan, whose last day was Friday, will be replaced by a relative unknown: Paula Zahn, who has been doing the newscasts on Good Morning America...
...life signs of the U.S. economy have been shaky for months, as if it had a mild case of the Shanghai flu. Inflation is drifting upward, while economic activity seems stuck in a quagmire of intense foreign competition and excessive debt. During the last quarter of 1989, the economy grew by only 0.5%, the slowest pace in three years. Warns Kazuaki Harada, chief economist of Japan's Sanwa Bank: "The real U.S. situation is worse than the growth-rate figures would indicate." Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan, whose finger is closest to the American economic pulse, thinks the current...