Word: bottomed
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...Yellowstone that cascade has long been felt, and since the 1930s, wildlife managers have watched in dismay as the park's ecosystem--once well balanced between predator and prey--grew more and more bottom-heavy. Finally, in the 1970s, they decided to do something about it. Working through the then new Endangered Species Act, they proposed a plan under which wolves would be imported from Canada to reclaim their place in the ecosystem. Twenty years later, the plan was approved, and wolves were trucked from across the border--31 to Yellowstone and 35 to Idaho...
...apartment in downtown Pristina, Alban Neziri, 23, coolly, methodically narrates his harrowing story. He says he was arrested last February as a suspected founding member of the K.L.A. and during his 10 months in prison was repeatedly tortured. "At the beginning, they beat me with plastic batons on the bottom of my feet," Neziri says. "That lasted 15 to 20 minutes. After that, they began to hit me on my kidneys. They do that with the point of the baton. After that, they began on my hands." By the end of the two-to-three-hour "interrogation," Neziri says...
...bottom line is that the Harvard Crimson is not limited to what Allison Feaster can do. Like Jordan's Bulls, the Crimson needs all the links of its chain to be strong in order to take the next step toward success...
Artful equivocartions are even worse; lynx-eyed sly little rascals that we are, we see right through them. (Up to exam 40. Then our lynx eyes droop, and grading habits relax. Try to get on the bottom of the pile.) Again, it is not that A.E.'s are vicious or ludicrous as such; but in quantity they become sheer madness. Or induce it. "The 20th century has never recovered from the effects of Marx and Freud." (V.G.); "But whether or not this is a good thing or a bad things is difficult to say." (A.E.) Now one such might...
Although there is often one novel by someone like Updike or DeLillo on the Best Sellers' list, most literary novels sell modestly. But in 1997 news stories reported that many publishing houses, under bottom-line pressure from conglomerate bosses, were becoming unwilling to publish writers with modest sales...