Word: steeping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Five booms were deployed to trap what oil remained on the surface, but the fast-moving river current simply forced the oil under and past them. In addition, the Monongahela's steep banks made much of the river inaccessible. The result: cleanup crews have recovered only 100,000 gal. of fuel -- and that is all they are likely to get. Communities downstream still face 760,000 gal. snaking their way along. By the end of next week the contamination should reach Cincinnati. But as it moves, the oil also becomes diluted; when it hits the Mississippi, perhaps by early March...
...confidence has suffered along with the market. Reports indicate the dollar value of Christmas sales will wind up 2% to 5% higher than 1986 levels. Because inflation was an estimated 4% to 5% in 1987, sales volume was thus essentially flat. Many stores did well, but it generally took steep discounting to entice shoppers to buy. Even on Beverly Hills' Rodeo Drive, signs proclaimed price cuts of up to 50%. Says Faye Ahrabi, assistant manager of the Chatelaine boutique on Rodeo: "If you didn't have a sale, you didn't make money." The situation is unlikely to improve soon...
...even built a special staircase to spare their distinguished visitor the indignity of climbing down a hill to the potato fields below the main road. Mikhail Gorbachev would have none of it. Stepping out of his ZIL limousine, he gave the staircase a dismissive wave and scrambled down the steep incline in his neatly pressed gray business suit, leaving his surprised entourage to run after him in full view of television cameras...
...change is strong. Even after the election was called off, many people stubbornly remained at the polls insisting that they were going to vote anyway. "Even if we are massacred by the hundreds, we will never turn back," pledges Rocourt of the beleaguered electoral council. The costs may prove steep, but nearly two years after the hated Duvaliers were ousted, many Haitians would pay almost any price to avoid another dictatorship...
...senior takes a job for the education the job will provide," says the analyst, "out now that the [intellectual challenge] has changed and the work consists of more 'busy work' than before Black Monday, your learning curve will not be as steep...