Word: upwardness
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...Inside, Mayne has provided another bravura gesture, a stairway framed in places by a fluid, torquing gridwork of white-painted steel that whirlpools upward through the building's multistory atrium. Appearing sometimes like a sort of trellis, sometimes as an open-grid wall, it has so much visual energy the stairs seem in some places to be climbing themselves...
Acknowledging that the skills taught in the workshop could apply to both men and women, Malisheski noted that “upspeak”—a speech pattern in which one ends a sentence with an upward inflection, making it sound like a question—is more common among the female population...
...Business Journalism must be full-time reporters or freelance writers who have had at least five years of experience in professional journalism. An applicant to the business reporting fellowship must also be a U.S. citizen and should be “a journalist of accomplishment, who has an upward career trajectory, [and] who has worked as a reporter in [business] for some time,” Giles said...
...having come this far, can Washington really afford to just walk away from the health care problem, leaving tens of millions uninsured and health costs spiraling upward? That's really the question that the Senate must now face. As Republican turned Democrat Arlen Specter put it on Fox News: "The one option which is not present in my judgment is the option of doing nothing...
...self-aggrandizement became both fashionable and fashion, especially for girls, with everything dropping by inches - necklines and waistlines but not hemlines, which climbed upward until a skirt became little more than a strap. Professional athletes flaunted their immodesty, egos on steroids bashing at the plate and dancing in the end zones; where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio, whose name was synonymous with greatness and grace? Developers etched their names into their towers in letters 6 ft. high; financiers built cottages the size of cathedrals. Politicians talked louder but did less, or declared Missions Accomplished that had barely begun. (See sports...