Word: steeped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Frankly, as our society was groping for a way out of the twilight of stagnation, it took us some time to become aware of the depths of the crisis. Today everyone is working against the clock. But we have already climbed a long, steep slope since the spring of 1985 ((when Gorbachev assumed power)). We did not do all that just to roll downhill again. Those five years have not been lost. We have gained experience; we have new knowledge, which we lacked at the first stage of perestroika. We have become wiser, we have learned to take a more...
...listen," he claimed. In 1987 he sold his firm to a British ad agency for $76 million. Carter resigned from the organization in January, a year after learning about the investigation of his dealings. Now he faces up to four years in jail, and his former company has posted steep losses as clients defect to other firms...
There had never been such a sight at the entrance to the U.S. Capitol. Dozens of disabled people abandoned their wheelchairs and crawled up the steep stone steps on knees, elbows and backs. The climb was not really necessary. The Capitol is equipped with ramps and elevators for wheelchairs. But the point was to rally support for the Americans with Disabilities Act, which would require public buildings and transportation systems to accommodate the disabled...
...pilgrim will no longer have to make the 2 1/2-hour climb from the monastery, on the steep steps carved in rock by Byzantine monks who began the task in the 6th century. Unless better angels intervene, there is to be a cable car to whisk the pilgrim up the volcanic rock. At the upper terminus, according to one plan, he will find a restaurant, a casino (which in Egypt is not a gambling house but a nonalcoholic nightclub) and probably an asphalt walkway lighted at night to take the visitor to where Moses...
Every day from 8 a.m. until 9 p.m., two dozen young men and women bearing mobile phones weave through the traffic. About 1,500 callers have already used the service, which costs a steep $2.77 for 30 seconds, to reach out and touch concerned spouses and angry bosses. Some have even used the phone to call the police and report -- what else? -- auto accidents...