Word: skyrocketed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When "The China Syndrome" opens tomorrow in 800 theaters across the country, the blood pressure of every electric power power executive whose company runs a nuclear power plant will go up like a skyrocket on the Fourth of July. And when the stock market opens Monday, the stocks of those power companies and of the companies that build the nuclear reactors may well go through the floor--all the way to China...
This legislation is essential if the ranchers and farmers in many states are to have the water they need to survive. Lack of water destroys both crops and livestock. When they're in short supply, food prices skyrocket...
...tremendous effects on the construction industry and the housing market. When the Fed tightens money, interest rates zoom (up to 10 per cent at present), and people can't afford to borrow money to build or buy housing. Construction workers go on welfare, real estate values skyrocket, and you just get more inflation...
This conflict points to an issue crucial to the power plant controversy: Harvard argues that it must continue construction at a fast rate or costs will skyrocket, while power plant opponents fear that the extensive construction only serves to strengthen the University's case for a reversal of the DEQE decision. Bracken said University officials involved with the construction "are moving ahead as fast as they possibly can--the more they put in, the more difficult it will be to stop them."Mission Hill residents last April delivered a petition against the Medical School Area power plant to President...
...medical costs skyrocket and more American women choose natural childbirth, often at home, over the impersonal facilities offered by many hospitals, it seems likely that the trend will accelerate. A bill, currently pending in Congress-sponsored by Senator Daniel Inouye of Hawaii-would authorize Medicaid payment of fees to nurse midwives. Next week the California assembly will consider a bill, backed by Governor Jerry Brown, legalizing the practice of mid wifery by adequately trained people whether or not they are also registered nurses...