Word: swollen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Ford and Chrysler were reporting 20% gains in car sales, GM products slipped 3.7%. This created the potential for a fourth-quarter loss of $1 billion, to finish off a record third year in the red. Because of declines in its investment portfolio, GM's unfunded pension liability has swollen from $8.6 billion to $11.4 billion. GM is preparing to freeze salaried wages and again suspend executive bonuses, selling off money-losing operations like National Car Rental and stopping production of its slow-selling Cadillac Allante ($61,675) sport coupe. Not even the Allante's powerful '93 Northstar engine seems...
...marketeer, and is relieved of his duties when he gets too close to the truth. He blackmails his boss for an air ticket and follows the trail to Munich. The corruption here is prosperity gone to fat. Needing to create a diversion in a parking garage, Arkady jostles a swollen, glistening car. Its alarm screams. Another jostled car and another; the German miracle bawls its rage. On to post-Wall Berlin, awash in refugees and resentments, smelling of money, poverty and developers' schemes. Arkady has found his old love Irina, the Siberian beauty lost in the West since Gorky Park...
Knighton drew a .22-cal. revolver out of his belt, jabbed it into her swollen belly and pulled the trigger. The bullet ripped through her unborn baby's head. Schanell managed to stagger to the room she shared with her mother and four siblings in a boardinghouse in one of the oldest, most dangerous neighborhoods of Deerfield Beach. As she collapsed on a bed, Knighton took a nickel from her room, strolled back to the store and calmly bought two Kools...
...cautionary example. When Europeans first landed there in 1722, they found 3,000 Polynesians living in extremely primitive conditions on the island amid the remnants of a once flourishing culture. The story of Easter Island is one of ecological collapse that began around the year 1600, when a swollen population of 7,000 stripped the island of trees, depriving inhabitants of building materials for fishing boats and housing. As the populace retreated to caves, various clans warred over resources, then enslaved and later cannibalized the vanquished. By the time Europeans arrived, the beleaguered survivors had forgotten the purpose...
...fingers from many places in the hands and arms, can swell up, producing painful tendinitis. Soreness can also result from the inflammation of sheaths surrounding the tendons. Muscles in the forearm that control the movement of fingers may become irritated, a condition called myositis. As tissues become inflamed and swollen, they can press on nearby nerves, causing tingling and weakness in the fingers. Sometimes scar tissue develops in the area. All together these injuries, if not treated, can result in diminished coordination and strength: patients may literally lose their grip and have trouble managing simple manual tasks...