Word: skyrocketing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Professor Blumenthal wants us to understand that he has thought this through, that this is wisdom, that this is reasoned. But if the youth of the '60s were "at-least-passionate," then the youth of the 1980s--my peers who watched the divorce rate among their parents skyrocket (at-least-passionate), who watched AIDS claim the lives of thousands (at-least-passionate), who came to view successful marriages as the exception to the rule, who came to understand that, for their parents' generation, passion and durability were a trade-off--the youth of the '80s are "at-least-surviving." Before...
...unfolding prosperity at home. No one quite bargained for the Middle-Class Squeeze, what Paula Rayman, a sociologist at Wellesley College's Stone Center, calls "falling behind while getting ahead." The prices of houses have soared, inflation erodes paychecks, wages are stagnant, and medical and tuition costs continue to skyrocket. So now it can take two paychecks to fund what many imagined was a middle-class life. "The American Dream is very much intact," says Rayman. "It's just more expensive...
...Government study concluded, however, that if foreign supplies were cut off oil prices would quickly skyrocket, inevitably sending the economy into a tailspin. Because production takes years to gear up, the U.S. petroleum industry could not fully make up the slack of the lost imports. Says John Boatwright, Exxon's chief domestic economist: "It's not a garden hose you can turn...
...city as popular as Cambridge, demand for retail housing is greater than supply. That means that in an unregulated market, with fewer than 1 percent of rental apartments vacant, market rents would skyrocket...
December 14: Americans begin to notice a strange yet undoubtable resemblance between the new President Quayle and President Reagan during his second term. Quayle's approval ratings skyrocket, and even the revelation that he bribed his way onto the Republican ticket doesn't damage his popularity...