Word: pyramidal
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...billion-dollar Aswan High Dam, partly financed by Russian credits, is to be the greatest monument in Egypt's history. Sixteen times the bulk of the Great Pyramid of Giza, the dam will create Lake Nasser, largest man-made lake in the world. According to the plans, it will bring into cultivation a badly needed million acres of now barren land, and double the present Egyptian output of electricity...
This solid-gold pyramid was erected...
...Habit. Newhouse himself has difficulty articulating his purpose in life. He just goes on buying newspapers, simply because that is what he has been doing most of his life. Whatever his motives, the pyramid he built is in no danger of demolition. To perpetuate it, Newhouse established a charitable foundation in 1945 whose ten shares of voting stock will go equally, on his death, to his two sons. "I'm very hardboiled about the boys," Newhouse says. "I've built this thing up and I'm not going to let it go to pieces...
...largely ceremonial, although its character could well change with the man. Brezhnev is a dynamic speaker and agile politician. In the first months following Khrushchev's death, he and Kozlov might well govern as a duumvirate, sharing state and party control, until the dictatorship again forms its natural pyramid and there is room for only...