Word: seldomly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...landscape, unfenced and open to all. From the circular stone constructions called talayots, used from about 1500 B.C. as dwelling or burial places by some of the island's earliest settlers, to the mighty T-shaped taulas, hewn from two limestone blocks, these monuments stand mysterious and largely undisturbed--seldom visited and free of entrance fees, guards and ice-cream vendors...
Walk the island's one-mile circumference, and you'll notice a number of FOR MONKS ONLY signs. When I checked in for the first time, Brother Jean-Marie, the frere hotelier, observed that he seldom returned to "the other side," which is what he called Cannes and the material world beyond. On my arrival, we spent an hour discussing things like Aristotle, St. Augustine, the human condition and contemporary affairs before he reminded me of the house "rules." "Do not talk to monks, go into the monks' living quarters or chat with other guests inside the abbey grounds...
...near the end of my first year at Harvard, I'm beginning to get tired of Annenberg's entrees. But while I've lamented the regular appearance of chicken fingers, chicken a la king, chickwiches and the like, I have seldom suspected that the menu's monotony was detrimental to my personal nutrition. With caloric breakdowns on display and nutrition fun fact cards serving as centerpieces, I always knew the good people at Harvard Dining Services took solicitous interest in my health...
...every area of the economy was open to judicious reform. Even as the rest of Europe toyed with socialism and state ownership, she set about privatizing the nationalized industries, which had been hitherto sacrosanct, no matter how inefficient. It worked. British Airways, an embarrassingly slovenly national carrier that very seldom showed a profit, was privatized and transformed into one of the world's best and most profitable airlines. British Steel, which lost more than a billion pounds in its final years as a state concern, became the largest steel company in Europe...
...overall sales dropped 3.4%. Under corporate ownership, the cultural appeal of books began to give way increasingly to bottom-line considerations. Media czars, expecting books to yield the same 15%-to-20% profits as their other content businesses, have become impatient with their publishers' balance sheets, which seldom return more than...