Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bare hill at Giza, some three miles from downtown Cairo, stands a simple rest house occasionally used by President Sadat. Its principal feature is a wide veranda that overlooks the Pyramids. The light and shadows constantly change the shape of these massive triangles leaning against each other. These are structures at once simple and monumental; they have endured the elements and man's depredations for as close to eternity as man can reach by his own efforts. In no other place in the world is man forced into humility so exclusively by one of his own accomplishments. In this...
...expect increases in the cost of living to keep moderating somewhat, but they forecast still higher unemployment next year. Fraser evidently agreed with those general estimates; most political observers conclude that he called the election a year early to avoid having to go to the voters in somewhat worse shape then than...
Whether Burns stays will depend to a large extent on the President's reading of the economic and political climate. If indicators are encouraging and his energy program is emerging in acceptable shape from Congress, he would feel freer to let Burns go. If the outlook is less ebullient, he might well want to keep Burns -and not rock the boat...
...fight over the shape of the future is even fiercer on the local level than in the state capitals of the Northwest. The battle flares on individual bumper stickers: SIERRA CLUB, KISS MY AXE, V. DON'T CALIFORNICATE IDAHO. On fashionable Mercer Island, just across from Seattle, residents have stalled the construction of two bridges for ten years to hold down growth, although the present spans are dangerous and jam with traffic during rush hours. In Lewiston, Idaho, the Potlatch lumber company is fighting the Sierra Club and others for permission to cut unsightly swaths through stands of white...
...dean, Rosovsky has managed to force the Faculty's budget back into shape--a talent that Yale, which ran a $6 million deficit last year, could...