Word: sloping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Japan's pleasure domes enclose a beach and a ski slope...
...office 9.5% by 1996. The enforcement of leisure time, however, is likely to leave many Japanese puzzled. In a recent survey of Japanese, more than 40% said they wouldn't know what to do with themselves if they had a month-long vacation. Seagaia, like an enormous indoor ski slope just outside Tokyo that opened two weeks ago, plans to profit by showing them how easy it is to enjoy themselves...
...mischance, there is nothing useful to say. This is not because the deaths are meaningless but because their meaning seems alarmingly personal. They raise the sort of dust that stirs in every mountaineer's sheaf of recollections: soft snow breaks out from under your boots on a steep slope. You slide, gaining speed. Then some mountain god flips a coin, and it comes up heads. You stop sliding, safe as a baby, a few yards above a long drop. Nothing...
...green with the flatness of the Alps once up the hill. Three of Crimson golfers missed putts inside of four feet after poor lags to the far-left pin position. But Radtke had perhaps the cruelest break of all. His drive was too perfect, stopping halfway down a slope, impeded by a burrowing animal hole, and leaving him with no chance to hit a shot with enough elevation to clear the rise in front...
...Columbia University, warned in Friday's Wall Street Journal that "if a nation's trading rights can be suspended simply because it refuses to accept another nation's idiosyncratic values, everyone could insist on morality-driven trade restrictions and the whole international trade system would head down a slippery slope." He also sagely urged us to examine whether "environmental regulations are really protectionism in disguise...