Word: bottomed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...walking wounded of Belfast anything, it is the finality of death. Weaving one's way through the cramped gray stones and overgrown plots, surveying the slope almost entirely covered with casualties of street violence, it is impossible not to covet the small space of empty grass at the bottom of the hill. Whether this desire for peace prompted by exhaustion is enough to build a just government remains to be seen...
...Some of the younger guys played great this tournament," said assistant coach Peter Mandeau. "Andrew has especially showed significant improvement in his game. He was close to the bottom of the line-up last year, but now he's moving towards success at a collegiate level...
...Ozone levels -- measured in Dobson units -- seemed to bottom out over the icy continent back in 1994. The preferred ozone level, for sun-blocking purposes, is somewhere between 250 and 500 units; the record low of four years ago was 88 units; the pole hole is now at 100 and heading south with the Antarctic spring...
...people die in caves is by going forward too fast, into wedges that trap them, rivers that drown them and mazes that defeat them until they give up or starve. The journey to what Bill Clinton called the "rock-bottom truth" feels now like a headlong descent, a process no one can control, toward resolutions no one can assure. There are Republicans looking for treasure down here--political power embedded for years to come. And there are Democrats looking for someone to blame. But for the rest of us, there is too little light, too little air, no compass...
Even those who are more determined to fulfilltheir dreams find themselves eventually driven bythe exigency of the bottom line...