Word: spiralled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Christian sect, she reads, posits a substance known as "Holy the Firm," a substance buried deep within planets that "is in touch with the Absolute, at base." She writes with irreverent abandon: "Yank the Absolute out of there and into the light, God pale and astounded, spraying a spiral of salts and earths, God footloose and flung...
...main reason for housing inflation is that land prices have multiplied six times in the past 20 years and now account for an unprecedented 25% of builders' costs. In some regions the spiral appears to be accelerating. Two examples: in Miami's Bade County, a basic 100-ft. by 75-ft. lot that sold for $3,500 a decade ago now commands $17,500. The price has risen $2,000 just since May, and Douglas Wiles, a Miami housing economist, predicts a further $4,000 increase by year's end. In the northern Virginia suburbs outside Washington, D.C., Builder Edward...
...more homeowners are bitterly learning, the Achilles' heel in the family housing budget may not be mortgage payments or heating costs or even that unexpected leak in the roof, but property taxes. Such taxes have risen an average of 76% since 1970, and 136% since 1967. The spiral has been caused in part by expansion of local public services, but more by the enormous inflation-sparked increases in the wages and benefits of teachers, policemen and firemen, and even the maintenance of local roads. Some examples...
...powered by a Go-Kart motor. Cost: $1,200. To get this 80-lb. flying machine off the ground, its developer, Larry Mauro of San Jose, Calif, runs as fast as he can for 25 feet. Says he: "In this plane you can find pockets of lift and spiral around. When you're out flying you'll often see two or :hree hawks right out there with you. The idea is to fly like a bird...
Vladimir Nabokov was, in his own words, "an American writer born in Russia and educated in England, where I studied French literature before spending 15 years in Germany." His life was, in fact, a spiral of migrations, and his passport was his art. When he died last week at 78, of a viral infection, at a hospital near his home in Montreux, Switzerland, that art was widely considered to include some of the best novels of the 20th century. There are three masterpieces: The Gift, written in Russian and first published in 1936, Lolita (1955), and Pale Fire...