Word: sunk
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...says. But sources close to the Medical School say that even if Adams is speaking the literal truth, rising power plant costs cannot help affecting tuition at the three schools as well as patient costs at the new Affiliated Hospital Center, scheduled to open in July. "Harvard has sunk one hell of a lot of money into this project," one source says, adding, "it's like shoveling money into a hole in the ground." Harvard has advanced thousands and thousands of dollars for the project and, with inflation rising in double digits, many say the University is sitting...
Banisadr's problems are compounded by economic woes. Unemployment is currently about 30%, and industrial production is only at 30% of capacity. Daily oil output has sunk to about 2 million bbl., far below the 6 million bbl. produced under the Shah. Production threatened to fall even lower when a major pipeline in Kermanshah province was blown up, presumably by antigovernment Iranian Arabs...
...complicated faceting, "cubifying"?though there are no real cubes in cubism?through the landscapes he painted at Horta de Ebro in 1909. By 1910 the cubist surface was reached, with a sort of gray-brown plasma, the color of fiddle backs, zinc bars and smokers' fingers. Objects were sunk in a twinkling field of vectors and shadows, solid lapping into transparency, things penetrating and turning away, leaving behind the merest signs for themselves?a letter or two, the bowl of a pipe, the sound hole of a guitar. This sense of multiple relationships was the core of cubism...
...maintain strict rationing on everything from meat to shoes and have forced prices on the black market up to prohibitive levels. Even black beans, a Cuban staple, now cost $2.50 per Ib. "The Cuban economy is in a state of collapse," said Electrician Luis Santana. "It's sunk...
After increasing their lead to 88-74 midway in the final quarter the Celtics finally caught fire as Bird sunk his third three point field goal of the night to narrow the margin to 99-97 with only 19 seconds remaining...