Word: steeping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...herself who "feel passionate about their writing." Then there was Dr. Theodore Badger, 77, a ruddy-faced professor emeritus at the Harvard Medical School, who began his writing career at the age of 70 with a column in Medical Dimensions magazine. Said he: "I just wanted to come and steep myself in the intellectual atmosphere...
Lance's shares, bought largely at a premium price, cost him more than $3.3 million in borrowed money. At one point last week their value had sunk to $1.7 million. One reason for the steep decline was that National Bank of Georgia officers decided earlier this month to write off $2.3 million in loan losses for the first half of 1977. Another was the prospect of Lance's promised divestiture. Since his shares amount to roughly 16% of the bank's stock, the anticipated sale has had an understandably dampening effect on the market value...
...united hue and cry over the shoddy condition of the course's greens. Although Pleasant Valley is an 18 of true championship caliber, the majority of the greens are in the midst of being aerated. The 18th green is being remodeled so that a makeshift green situated on a steep incline is being used. Any player who hits a shot onto the 18th green is therefore automatically awarded two putts. "It's really unfortunate to have a major tournament decided this way," Crimson coach Bob Donovan said yesterday...
Less easy to explain away was a steep rise in industrial commodity prices. Many basic products, including aluminum, rubber and various plastics, are getting more expensive all the time -and manufacturers have been moved, or at least tempted, to reflect the real or anticipated higher cost of supplies in their own prices. Take James Brownell, vice president of Florida-based Weatherking, Inc., maker of air conditioners: "I have seen in the past several months price increases from my vendors slip upward from five to seven percent. It scares the daylights...
...year 2000, give or take a decade or so. The power sources of the future-solar, thermonuclear fusion, geothermal and coal-derived fuels-remain just that: visions for the future, with no certainty that such sources will be available when present reserves of oil and gas go into steep decline. And the use of coal and nuclear-fission power is not expanding nearly rapidly enough to fill the looming energy gap. Hence, the U.S. faces the terrible threat of closed factories and cold, dark homes unless its politicians can master a new kind of challenge: taking painful steps...