Word: steep
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...quips. Botta's brick masses occupy their site with authority and dignity, and their striations save the windowless walls from dullness. It might have looked like an art bunker, but Botta avoided this by splitting the mass symmetrically with a protruding skylight: a big cylinder sliced off at a steep angle and faced in bands of dark and white granite...
Pick just about any major institution, and chances are Americans are scrambling to find a more agreeable substitute. The Yankelovich Monitor, an annual survey of 4,000 Americans based on interviews conducted in their homes, shows a steep erosion of trust in traditional authority. Among the fallen: doctors, religious leaders, big companies, schools and especially the Federal Government. What makes people in the survey ``very angry,'' said 55% of them in 1994, up from 44% the previous year, is people in positions of power who ``say one thing and do another...
Misael Orduna Cecilda, a 24-year-old ice-cream vendor from Havana, made an unsuccessful break for it three weeks ago. He sprinted 25 yds. to the edge of a steep cliff, then jumped into the bay. The swirling currents quickly sapped his strength. He waved to a Coast Guard cutter to hoist him aboard. "The problem is, our goal was get to the U.S. as fast as possible," said Cecilda, fingering a scar on his left leg where he cut himself on the barbed wire. "Now we're stuck here, and all we can do is think about...
...high official attached to the dam. There, an apologetic aide informed her that due to one of the city's increasingly frequent power shortages, the elevator was out -- and she would have to climb six flights of stairs. Leaning on her interpreter, Burton made it up the steep candlelit stairway. "When I arrived, wilted and breathless," she recounts, her interview subject chuckled, gestured to a mural of the dam and said, " 'Now you can see for yourself how badly we will need the energy this dam will supply...
...year in an Individual Retirement Account (IRA) -- with the new provision that the money could be withdrawn for educational and other family-related purposes without paying taxes. Finally, he promised to rechannel some federal funds into direct grants for job-training.Payment for all this, as predicted, would come from steep budget cuts at the department of Energy, Transportation and Housing and Urban Development (where, the president said, 60 programs will be streamlined into four). The result, Clinton said, would be "a leaner, not a meaner, government." And he reiterated his commitment to lobbying and campaign reform and called for a more...