Word: steep
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...week's end, many guesses and questions shrouded the negotiations. The two companies were insisting that "there is no assurance an agreement will be reached." But if the deal does fly, Matsushita will have escaped from a nettlesome marriage, though at a steep price (about a 35% loss on the original investment, owing mostly to the weakness of the dollar vs. the yen). And Bronfman, the wandering son who officially took over the family business only last year, will invest his shareholders' money so he can realize his dream. He will ascend from mere billionaire status to a more glamorous...
...bookish room. In another corner of the stage, a third figure becomes apparent. Bald and stocky, this figure (John Sharian) represents at various points a demon, Ward's grandfather, and a cyborg. He even barks to out of site vampires. The characters vie for attention in the small, steep theater which only seats 27 people...
John Simpson went in for surgery to remove a kidney stone, only to have doctors find that it had disappeared: he credits a prayer wheel of more than 3,000 people that his wife, a Charismatic, organized. Leslie Smith recalls hurtling down a steep hill on her bike when she was seven years old. She began to slip off the seat--and felt hands lift her back up onto the bike. Dorothy Pederson, the most skeptical in the room, believes a miracle saved her husband's life after a brutal mugging in a hotel room seven years ago. John Lashley...
...dollar took a steep dive over four days last week-hitting record lows against the yen-but leveled off when Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan hinted at an interest-rate hike...
Immediate, steep cuts could signify the end ofmajor projects, Casey says...