Word: steeping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...himself a cottage overlooking the sea--a good place for a man whose four favorite words, a friend recalled, were "Mind your own business." He spent 27 years at Prout's Neck, relieved by excursions to New York and fishing trips to the Caribbean, Florida and the Adirondacks. Its steep, sea-gnawed granite ledges became the emblematic landscape of his finest work. No artist since Turner had painted the sea with such lyric concentration, from the beaming blue transparency of the Caribbean, captured in masterly watercolors, to the sullen beat and topple of gray combers driven by an Atlantic gale...
...production of these compounds. Now is the second stage, where we see a decline in the levels in the atmosphere." Lemonick says that chemicals currently present in the upper atmosphere will linger for years, and it remains to be seen if the slight drop can become a steep cut. "Reversing the trend of ozone depletion is like turning around a huge ocean liner," Lemonick says. "You can reverse the engines, but it still takes a while to change the ship's direction." If this trend is sustained, scientists say the Antarctic ozone hole, first detected in the 1980s, could begin...
Pulling into his local Texaco station, Don McCullough, a Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, artist, blinked and looked again. The price for high-test gasoline had jumped overnight from $1.36 per gal. to $1.49. "I couldn't believe it," he says. Blame the steep increase on the Iraqis and a problem in a Philadelphia refinery, said the attendant...
...soap-as-satire, but no other serial has advanced the idea as marvelously as Melrose Place during its glory days--glory days that the current season, due to conclude in two weeks, has proved are long gone. The show will return in September, but its decline has been so steep--should it even bother...
Twenty-one years after the conflict ended, America continues to pay the costs of the Vietnam War. Once again, the price seems steep--and Vietnam appears to be getting the better of the U.S. According to the San Jose Mercury News, huge chunks of the $33.6 million the Pentagon has spent in the past four years to track down the 1,609 American military personnel still missing in the country have been diverted into the pockets of various Vietnamese officials, middlemen and hucksters. Among the alleged abuses: entire fleets of U.S.-owned vehicles, designated to drive investigators around, have been...