Word: splitting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Next to the Library Tower is a curving stairwell, flanked by plants and shops and split down the center by a small, raised stream of water flowing over rounded rocks. The path leads the eye upward, where finally, around a bend, a small pool and fountain rest serenely. Across the street, the steps to the library itself are decorated in words in many languages and split by a series of pools and sculptures. There are open courtyards, a sunken mall and beautiful glassy buildings that reflect light down to the street...
While regulators are supposed to ensure that standards are met, many of the rules are weak or unclear. The Federal Government, for example, doesn't specify how much staffing a nursing home needs. That imprecision and split responsibility can be exploited by the nursing-home industry, which in many states is a powerful lobby with lots of cash to spread among sympathetic lawmakers. Last year California levied $2.6 million in fines, but it has collected only $518,000 from recalcitrant nursing homes...
...Monica's story is worth "maybe as much as a million," while Robert Gottlieb of the William Morris Agency puts the number in the low six figures. Larry Kirshbaum of Time Warner Trade Publishing is closefisted, saying, "I think we're all bimboed out." The supermarket tabloids are similarly split. The Star's Phil Bunton has a standing offer of $1 million to hear Lewinsky's story, while the Globe's Tony Frost has "scant interest." Meanwhile, right-wing publisher Regnery next week becomes the first with a pro-impeachment book, this one by commentator Ann Coulter...
...issue has split not only the tribe but also individual families. For example, Capitan, the grass-roots opposition leader, is the nephew of Arviso, the employee of Hydro Resources. And there is a generational clash as well: some younger Navajo accuse the landowners, many of them tribal elders, of selling out. "The older people always say human life is more important than material things," says LaJuanna Daye, a health-care worker, "but here they have the chance to prove it, and all we see is greed...
Buried in Yahoo's stellar Wednesday-night earnings report -- sales of $41.2 million, up 36 percent from the beginning of the year; traffic of 115 million daily pageviews in June, up from 95 million in March; a 2-for-1 stock split -- was news that the search standout was raising $250 million by selling new stock to Softbank, which already owns nearly a third of the company. We could all use another $250 million, but what does Yahoo need...