Word: steep
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...peace process along. Perhaps, as a senior State Department aide says, "the prospect of international outrage and more, the chance that Israel's economy can be adversely impacted by his head-in-the-sand policies, will cause Netanyahu to see the light." But any learning curve will be steep...
...only has the Faculty requested answers about growth in Faculty meetings, an FAS committee released a report last year which detailed a steep rise in the number of "administrative" positions between...
...succeeds where England fails. Aristocratic cross-pollination there suffered a steep devolution on the way to Charles and Diana. Bed hopping in country houses was probably never quite as careless or harmless as it seemed. Poor Lord Melbourne (whose biography by David Cecil was J.F.K.'s favorite book) suffered stoically for years while his ardent and unstable wife, Lady Caroline Lamb, made an idiot of herself with Lord Byron and others. But at least Melbourne, Lady Caroline and Byron were more interesting than Charles and Diana. Maybe Bill Clinton belongs to a more vigorous tradition of plebeian friskiness: Tom Jones...
...fumbles and foibles, Perot has made a mark on the political landscape. Against steep odds he created a bona fide third party whose presidential candidate in the year 2000 will qualify for taxpayer funding. Lamm and his supporters are already vying for the money, which will amount to several million dollars. More immediately, Perot has helped put two issues squarely at the center of the nation's agenda: campaign-finance reform and the need to overhaul Medicare and Social Security. "If Ross Perot had only known what to do with the remnants of a losing presidential campaign," says Ralph Reed...
...into each other's answering machine. But the two did make a connection. "We've talked about doing an album together," says Bacharach. "We've even got a concept." Costello may have time too; he keeps hinting that he's on his last tour. And Bacharach is enjoying a steep rise in grooviness, especially in England. Says Mr. B.: "I think the English have very good taste...