Word: steep
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Ripley Under Water (1991)--trace a rake's progress from callow kid to elegant arriviste. "Wonderful to sit in a famous cafe," he thinks after his first murder, "and to think of tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow being Dickie Greenleaf!" For all his tomorrows, Tom gets to steep himself in la Dickie vita. He lives in a fine house near Paris with a handsome blond wife who is blessedly indifferent to his shadier activities. From Dickie's estate and from the profits of an art-forgery racket, Tom has an income that gives him the leisure to paint, garden...
...investment fund he helped set up with a subsidiary of the Chase Manhattan Bank to attract celebrity dollars has disintegrated. And the once worshipful buzz has suddenly turned ugly. In Hollywood, a town built on tales of golden boys brought down, the wags are debating the reasons for his steep descent...
...finally learning what it takes to make a decent cuppa. Gone are the days when it was O.K. to drop a bag in hot water and let it stew to a pulpy mess, creating an overbrewed, bitter cup. Each tea variation--green, oolong and black--requires a different steep time and water temperature. Real enthusiasts prefer loose tea strained through infusers, which makes for a stronger, finer brew. Still, there's no need to become Martha Stewart to make tea. "It's not about getting it right, but what you like," says Teaism owner Michelle Brown...
...Daft's biggest challenges, assuming that he takes office as CEO next April. In what seems to many analysts to be an ever desperate bid to increase revenues, one of Ivester's most recent moves was to hike the price of Coke's concentrate by a steep 7.7%. In effect, that represents a penalty for the company's cost-conscious bottling affiliates. In the past, Coke has offset such cost increases by funneling hundreds of millions of dollars in financial assistance to its key bottlers. But bottlers expressed outrage at last month's move, which they feel indicates Atlanta...
With an arsenal of tactics including letter writing, negotiations, lawsuits, and rallies and marches, EFZ has emerged as local tenants' primary defenders against evictions and steep rent increases...