Word: upper
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...tell you, it's hard to keep a stiff upper lip these days. First my high-tech dot-com portfolio plummets. Then it turns out that my beloved cell phone may be zapping my delicate cranium with radioactive waves. And now, to top it all off, the Prozac that keeps me from murdering my coworkers is under attack, this time by recently unemployed talk therapists. It's as if everything that seemed so promising way back in the '90s has suddenly been tainted by doubt...
...utility Con Ed disclosed that bills in the Big Apple will probably be 30% higher than last year's, thanks to rising fuel costs and an increasingly tight energy supply in the region. Coming a week after a brief blackout knocked out 140 customers on Manhattan's tony Upper East Side--and a year after a major one crippled an entire Washington Heights neighborhood for 19 hours--the admission further sullied Con Ed's bad reputation. John Dyson, chairman of Mayor Rudy Giuliani's council of economic advisers, expressed the official outrage: "It's hard to believe a rate increase...
When I'm on the Upper East Side of Manhattan and I see a child who seems particularly pampered--fabulously expensive clothing, state-of-the-art toys, an attentive nanny or two--my first thought is, "That poor kid's head must itch like crazy...
...unruly current. The corps built levees along the river's banks to hold in the water and turned its rapids and ever changing sandbars into a more civilized staircase of 29 locks and dams stretching nearly 700 miles from St. Paul, Minn., to St. Louis, Mo. Now the upper Mississippi has become a chain of placid pools, each deep enough to allow barges calm passage before a lock lowers them toward New Orleans...
...mainland and one of us said, "There's going to be a storm." A dark, ominous haze had gathered - disorienting indeed. The water of the Sound had become indistinguishable from the air - all was an inky continuum, a squid's cloud. Only when we looked higher, into the upper air, did we see vestiges of light. We lit a fire and talked awhile, and night descended. The storm never came. We went to sleep...