Word: upward
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...climber at a time--no fewer than three expeditions had announced plans to begin their trek to the top that evening. Making things worse, two of the teams--Fisher's and Hall's--were the two largest on the mountain. All together, 33 people would be tramping the upward trail at the same time. For Breashears, this was reason enough to stay put. "We didn't like the way the weather looked," he says, "and now we were going to be crowded by all these other climbers. We decided to wait...
...He’s our best attacker,” Ridolfi said. “He’ll be the one people are looking for. We’re going to hope to expand his role, and hopefully he can continue on his upward path...
...fall back to 65,000 in 2003. Since then it has been reached progressively earlier each year as demand has increased—first in August, then in May, and now in early April. There is already bipartisan support for a measure that would push the cap on visas upward and create an automatic-adjustment system so that Congress is not several years behind in reacting to increased visa demand. But bickering and politicking over the comprehensive immigration package have left this important component dead. Congress must not let the health of the most productive part of our economy fall...
...climate of uneasy feeling it creates as a building disemboweled, with its intestines and even its skeleton on display. Sitting on the broad, cobblestoned (and mime-infested) plaza in front of it, it's not hard to imagine that the underground workings of the city itself have erupted upward. The Pompidou may be high tech, its exoskeleton may be a rationalist's grid, but it strikes a note of ferocious dislocations and forbidden disclosures that the Surrealists would have understood...
...President over a Democrat. Much of it has to do with the individual candidates involved. In Clinton's case, as TIME pollster Mark Schulman points out, "with Hillary the Democratic front-runner, most voters have made up their minds about her, both pro and con. She may have limited upward potential against Republicans. The emerging anti-Hillarys, Obama and Edwards, suffer from low awareness at this point...