Word: steeper
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...only finding alternative penalties for nonviolent offenders, but offering parole to rehabilitated old-timers. Often the hotheads who enter the system while still in their teens and 20s chill out by their 30s and 40s. Life-means-life sentences do a disservice on several fronts. Taxpayers pay ever steeper costs for aging inmates, who require more medical care; wardens are stripped of the ability to motivate these prisoners; and the lifers sink into a hopelessness that can be dangerous...
...genuine treasures did stand out. One is Canyon de Chelly, which I found much more striking than the Grand Canyon. While obviously not nearly as big, it is much more accessible and much steeper. There is none of the overcrowding, pollution, and commercialism which cheapens its big brother. The Navajo Indians also have laxer safety standards than the National Park Service so the truly stupid/daring can have a great time peering over the edge...
...writes a best seller warning that if environmentalism does not become "our new organizing principle," then "the very survival of our civilization will be in doubt." And "the potential for ! true catastrophe lies in the future, but the downslope that pulls us toward it is becoming recognizably steeper with each passing year." Familiar, isn't it? The yawning chasm -- accompanied, as for every apocalypse, by the death struggle between the forces of light and the forces of darkness: "We now face the prospect of a kind of global civil war between those who refuse to consider the consequences of civilization...
...study this behavior in detail. In one experiment, they dropped 35,000 grains of sand onto the pile one by one. As the sides grew too steep -- in some cases, by only a single grain of sand -- avalanches would make the pile collapse. Then it would start growing steeper again, until it was time for the next avalanche...
...anything, as Scott MacKay, an Ottawa computer consultant, put it, "people decided the politicians were hiding behind constitutional reform to avoid more pressing issues." Like the economy. The downturn in Canada has been much steeper than in the U.S., the country's chief trading partner: the unemployment rate stands at 11.8%, vs. 7.2% south of the border. More than 400,000 manufacturing jobs -- 20% of the total -- have been lost in the past three years, many of them permanently. Federal and provincial governments are awash...