Word: sloping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...second boom occurred at the height of Barcelona's industrial prosperity and misery, between 1860 and 1910. Its main frame, the huge grid of chocolate- square blocks that stretches from the Barri Gotic up the slope toward the Collserola hills, was designed in 1859 by a socialist engineer named Ildefons Cerda. It is known as the Eixample, or Enlargement, and is the ancestor of all the Utopian schemes of 20th century architecture. The cultural contents of this grid, as it developed, proved no less remarkable. The trade-obsessed city of powerful clerics and stuffy businessmen was the closest place...
Case in point: when Dunne was feeling down forspending her birthday on a Colorado slope duringthe 1982 world championships, her teammates cameto the rescue. After the competition, athletesfrom many different sports attended a surprisebirthday party, lavishing her with present...
Last year, Dunne assembled a team of noted skiinstructors--including a former Olympic goldmedalist--in Utah to learn how to teach thevisually impaired to ski. Blindfolding theinstructors, Dunne had them led down the slope byan instructor who could see, to give them anappreciation for what it is like for the visuallyimpaired...
...SPECTER haunting this decision was Nazi Germany and its policy of killing the aged, infirm, mentally handicapped and other people whose quality of life was poor enough (as the Nazis saw it) to justify eliminating them for the greater good of society. This was the slippery slope down which the Florida courts feared to slide...
THERE IS a qualitative difference between these patients--who have been, and may be in the future, human beings with some capacity for mental experience--and infants who have never had and will never have that capacity. This qualitative difference would prevent the slippery slope that the judges feared...