Word: steeped
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...above the minimum requirements for soccer) and 116 yds, long (only 4 yds. below the maximum soccer standard). It seems that an artificial playing field has roughly the topography of a turtle back to promote drainage. With the practice game layout, goalies found themselves running uphill at a steep angle...
...National Chairman under John F. Kennedy, the latest Harris poll pegs Jackson's recognition factor at only 41%. Thus his decision to follow his formal declaration with a $60,000 half-hour of prime-time national television to convey his message directly to the electorate. It is a steep price for a frugal man whose campaign is going...
...setting sets the mood. Richard Sylbert has devised a marvelous high-rise apartment in full view of-what else?-another highrise. The rent is just as steep, but the fixtures are gimcrack, the partitions are parchment, and the terrace looks like a handy suicide perch. The acoustics are superb. Says a sleepless Mel: "Two-thirty in the morning. I can hear the subway in here better than I can hear it in the subway...
...favored joining the Common Market, according to the latest Louis Harris poll, while 49% were opposed. Some anti-Marketeers were fearful of what Wilson called "blackleg labor" from the Continent at a time of 3.9% unemployment, high by British standards. Housewives were worried that the Common Market's steep agricultural tariffs would send food prices soaring. British fishermen, distressed by rules that open the waters of one nation to the trawlers of all, recently held a sail-in off Brighton, displaying banners that read SAVE OUR SOLES...
Forced Funding. Behind the financial squeeze is the end of the 1960s education boom, in which enthusiasm for education enabled the schools' income to rise faster than the G.N.P. Now citizens are no longer as willing to vote themselves increases in the already steep local property taxes that still pay for most schooling. Their reluctance is strengthening the case of educators who, like Philadelphia's Shedd, say the nation needs a new way to raise its school funds. The inequitable property tax, which yields the least resources for schools in urban poor areas that are stuck with...