Word: steeped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...early 30s, in the pillbox hat, or the bloody pink suit, or the black veil, became one of the urdivinities of the paleotelevision age. By the time she died, she was still arguably the most famous woman on earth. Who else -- Madonna? Princess Di? (The falloff in quality is steep...
...disjuncture between law and practice may be extreme in France, but it is not unique. Around the world, legislators have followed the U.S. lead in trying to stub out tobacco by restricting smoking areas, banning or limiting cigarette ads, imposing steep taxes and issuing ominous health warnings. But with a few notable exceptions, such as in Singapore and Australia, cultural attitudes and habits have largely quashed such efforts. Foreigners, who seem only too eager to inhale most aspects of American culture, regard the U.S. obsession with smoking as overwrought. "The whole thing," sniffs German teacher Waltraud Gruneisl, "borders on mass...
...have seen a steep drop in the standards of the profession," Oliphant said. "Writing about things like political strategy has today crowded the serious substantive White House journalism out of journalism...
Still, some Blockbuster shareholders continued to grumble last week over the steep decline in the value of Viacom stock. But with Huizenga and other corporate insiders holding 23% of Blockbuster shares, dissidents could be hard pressed to put together enough votes to block the Viacom-Blockbuster combination. "The stock sucks right now," concedes John Melk, a Blockbuster director. "But this is a tremendous deal." In the long run, that...
...prestige of masculinity is in steep decline. The overt man bashing of recent years has refined itself into a pervasive snideness. What does a man have to say for himself...