Word: steeped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...carry enough water home to get through the day. Every drain spout in the city has a collection bucket under it, and when rains come, the buckets are jealously guarded by old men and women grateful for water that does not have to be dragged up the city's steep hills. "It is all we do. We look for water. We look for wood. We try to feed the family, and then we begin the process all over again," says one woman who has struggled up the embankment with...
...Producer Price index showed no increase for May, diminishing inflation fears that were set off by steep increases during March and April. The steadiness of prices should discourage any impulse by the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates to relieve inflationary pressures...
...Mistake or mischance, there is nothing useful to say. This is not because the deaths are meaningless but because their meaning seems alarmingly personal. They raise the sort of dust that stirs in every mountaineer's sheaf of recollections: soft snow breaks out from under your boots on a steep slope. You slide, gaining speed. Then some mountain god flips a coin, and it comes up heads. You stop sliding, safe as a baby, a few yards above a long drop. Nothing...
...says there are bidding procedures for everything her office does. Asked to state his specific policy on bidding, Vice President for Alumni Affairs and Development Fred L. Glimp '50 said his office employs bidding for the reunions when officials feel that prices charged by current vendors have gotten too steep...
...price was too high or too low: parks, highways and other pork projects served as common currency. As many as 15 lawmakers from peanut-producing states switched when the White House agreed to curb the flow of imported Chinese peanut butter -- at a steep cost to American consumers. Clinton promised to toughen his policy toward Haiti to woo several black lawmakers. One telephone conversation between a Cabinet officer and an undecided lawmaker went like this: "Congressman, I'm sitting here chewing my fingers and wondering what else we can do to win this vote. I know you've talked...