Word: toweritis
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...LEAN YEARS The tower began leaning almost from the beginning, in 1173. Over the course of the tower's 200-year construction, builders tried to compensate for the list, resulting in a slightly banana-shaped structure...
...drilling created small cavities all along the high side of the foundation, allowing engineers to "steer" the settling of the tower...
...attempt to straighten the tower, builders try using thicker stones on the downward side...
About 1198, documents show, a bell ringer worked at the tower, which was about this high at the time...
Sources: Coordination Committee for the Safeguard of the Tower of Pisa; University of Pisa; CS Informatica, Pisa: Eyewitness Guide to Italy; Associated Press