Word: upwards
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Sandler, who played a leading role in the passage of Title IX, said she hoped more lawyers would try such cases because "liability has zoomed upward...
...widening -- psychological depression. People for whom unemployment was always someone else's problem have been affected. The jobless numbers themselves are not particularly outsize, but the fear is palpable: in many polls, fully 50% of respondents fear that they will lose their jobs in the next 12 months, and upward of 65% of Americans view the nation as on the "wrong track...
...land like conventional jets but are powered by "scramjets" that, once aloft, will enable them to swoop into orbit or go halfway around the world in two hours. Cargo will be shot into orbit by electromagnetic rail guns that ramp up the sides of mountains, or will be flung upward by looping orbital tethers, sort of like David's slingshot...
...bettering their condition. The desire for a full life, formerly restricted to the rich, would spread to the masses. The expansion of desire -- the motor of progress -- would assure the expansion of the economic machinery necessary to satisfy it. Economic development would thus continue indefinitely in a self-generating upward spiral, without any foreseeable end or limit...
Most branches of Christianity agree with St. Augustine that the 1,000 years stand symbolically for the ongoing spiritual hegemony of Jesus Christ. An onward-and-upward millennial version holds that believers will gradually establish a kingdom of peace and righteousness on earth, preparing for Christ's Second Coming. There has always been a millenarian undercurrent, however, that rejects symbolism and holds Revelation 20 to mean that Jesus will return to rule an earthly kingdom for literally 1,000 years...