Word: steep
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...price a private company has to pay to build a power plant in an urban area nowadays is pretty steep. The local utility has a monopoly on power that's not easy to break. Federal and state environmental laws prohibit construction of all but the cleanest, and therefore the most expensive, projects. And nobody--especially organized residents--wants a noisy power plant as a neighbor. Just to deal with that kind of opposition the company needs big money and a lot of political influence. And Harvard has got just enough of both to drop a $56-million power plant...
...sharp contrast, some political liberals, drawing on a congressional staff study, estimate that decontrol would contribute to a rise of as much as $40 billion in consumer living costs during the next year, or $400 to $800 for the average family of four. Those figures are probably too steep: they reflect guesses on how much oil increases might pull up prices of natural gas and coal and a belief that the $2 tariff would be retained, which has already been proved wrong. They also suggest a fear that higher oil prices will drive up prices of petrochemicals and many other...
Scenes From American Life, a comedy about upper-class life in Buffalo, has been getting rave reviews. It's continuing in repertory with Ah, Wilderness at the BU Summer Repertory Theatre. Ticket prices are steep--$4 to $7.50--but there is such a thing as a "student pass." Call 353-3392. --Natalle Wexler
...Frederic Hunter has supplied us with four stick figures instead of only one, and the resultant drama is like the clatter of dry brambles. The idea sounds like such a good one--and it charges certain moments (wistful memories, lost possibilities) with double poignancy. But the costs are too steep. Presenting four in carnations of the same Hemingway is an artificial device the audience is supposed to pardon. It can But the artificiality--the feeling of an academic exercise--rubs off onto the life and world the play is set in, and this is too much incredulity for anyone...
...detailed and vast, set--appropriately in this Bicentennial year--in the colonial style of our forefathers. The Liberty Bell, Paul Revere's Ride, a Puritan Village--all these chapters of our history are arranged perfectly in order that we may knock golf balls through them. The price is steep--$2.50--but a miniature golf course this made-to-order is worth much more...