Word: pyramidal
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...food-store manager, first became interested in the priesthood when he was troubled by his inability to defend the church against the barbs of a Protestant friend. Krol has spent most of his career in canon law classrooms and chancery offices. In a rapid climb of the priestly pyramid, he was ordained at the age of 26, became auxiliary bishop of the Cleveland diocese at 42 and Archbishop of Philadelphia at 50. Now 61, he is healthy and hardworking, yet enjoys relaxing in the sprawling Archdiocesan mansion...
...other words, but a place to spend a weekend or a week. Early guests have been staying at the Polynesian Village Hotel, built in Tahitian style along a lake shore, with 500 rooms in five so-called long houses. The Contemporary Resort Hotel, which looks vaguely like a Mayan pyramid and features a 14-story-deep lobby appropriately called the Grand Canyon Concourse, will be finished by January, and two more cavernous hotels-in Persian, Thai and Venetian styles-have yet to be started. The prices at Disney World seem reasonable enough. Hotels range from...
...Riles would pay the preschool bills with money now spent on the twelfth grade, upending "the current inverted pyramid shape of school finance, where the lower the grade, the less money per pupil is spent." The biggest gainers, he thinks, might be disadvantaged students -and the taxpayers. "Prevention is cheaper than remediation," he says. "A dollar spent on the very young goes farther than a dollar for the not-so-young who are in remedial classes or on welfare or, indeed, on the 'Wanted' bulletins of post office walls...
...shrouded pyramid of ascending levels of governmental secrecy, the National Security Council stands at the apex. Yet when it meets and turns out the lights for a briefing, an outsider can walk right in. So, at least, claims former Presidential Press Secretary Pierre Salinger, who reveals that such a bizarre incident in his first novel, On Instructions of My Government, was based on an actual happening...
...L.BJ. Library": What better way for "my fellow American" to leave a remembrance-his own pyramid...