Word: steep
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...paperback edition, the Catechism of the Catholic Church has been experiencing popularity among Catholic and non-Catholic readers alike. It's a kind of owner's manual for those who call the Catholic faith their own, a definitive statement of Catholic belief. At $19.95, some might say it's steep for a paperback; but it's worth every penny...
...women and children -- a combination considered vital by the delegates to Cairo. But Mohammed Zakaria, undersecretary for health affairs in Sinnuris, says he must also meet birth-control targets set each year (an approach deemed ineffective in the Cairo plan) and that after a second child, families must pay steep fees for hospital delivery (a disincentive generally frowned on as coercive). In general, women like Sohad Ahmad are limiting the number of their children not because of any economic or political empowerment but because of economic hardship...
...group encountered Pan Pipe and Gourmet John and Wandering Jew II, thru-hikers trekking the Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine. These were the more pleasant evenings. On one occasion, our FOP group had the less pleasant experience of sleeping under a plastic tarp set up on a steep hillside so that all eleven group members were hugging each other. Group bonding at its best...
...wasn't until refrigerator-size boulders began hurtling down from above that the scientists sitting in an Anchorage, Alaska, control room started to get seriously worried. Until then the robot known as Dante II had successfully negotiated a steep, muddy descent and ambled unconcernedly through hot steam and poisonous gases. But even a 10-ft.-tall, 1,700-lb. automaton has its limits, and multiton chunks of rock moving at high speed were beyond Dante's. "That big one," said Carnegie Mellon University robotics expert John Bares, pointing nervously at a video screen after a rockslide, "would've wiped...
...important as this news was to volcano experts and the people of Anchorage, just 80 miles from Mount Spurr, the volcano study was perhaps the least noteworthy part of the robot's mission. Despite the final slipup, which toppled Dante and left it stranded on the steep mountain slope, the 10-day trek went a long way toward proving the potential of a technology that could let humans explore a wide range of sites too hazardous to visit in person -- other volcanoes, deep caves, the barren wastes of Antarctica, the ocean floor and even the surfaces of the moon...