Word: upwards
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Vladimir is a senior at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, and is involved in both an internship in the hotel industry and an educational program called Upward Bound...
Back behind the wheel several days later, while MacCready was glancing upward watching birds circle, he drew on his physics and aeronautical education from Yale and Caltech, casually estimating the birds' bank angle. By timing their circles, he calculated their speed. His mind drifted to hang gliders and sailplanes, comparing their flying characteristics with those of birds. Then came the second--and more creative--eureka moment. The Kremer Prize was as good...
Becoming president should be a transformation upward - the start of the honeymoon. What we see now are two transformations downward - not only no honeymoon, but the vicious opposite of romance of any kind. E-mail flies around the Web to the effect that 1) George W. Bush is infinitely stupider than we had ever thought, or 2) Al Gore is a cheating weasel, weirder than anyone suspected during the campaign. On the radio, Don Imus foams at the mouth impartially, ranting about both...
...early morning, it was clear Florida would probably decide the election. Network analysts saw Bush's lead in the vote count stretch upward of 50,000 votes, a lead that, given the apparently small number of votes left and the voting history of the districts left to report, seemed increasingly insurmountable. At 2:16 a.m., Fox News called Florida, and thus the presidency, for Bush. Soon every network rolled the President Bush graphics; the crowd whooped in Austin; and Gore called Bush to concede. Newspapers prepared BUSH WINS! front pages that would leave them black, white and red-faced...
...early morning, it was clear Florida would probably decide the election. Network analysts saw Bush's lead in the vote count stretch upward of 50,000 votes, a lead that, given the apparently small number of votes left and the voting history of the districts left to report, seemed increasingly insurmountable. At 2:16 a.m., Fox News called Florida, and thus the presidency, for Bush. Soon every network rolled the President Bush graphics; the crowd whooped in Austin; and Gore called Bush to concede. Newspapers prepared BUSH WINS! front pages that would leave them black, white and red-faced...