Word: steep
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...promoting a glossy image and accompanying steep rents--Ray says the Shops charge tenants anywhere from $35 to $60 a square foot--Harvard is practicing bad business and encouraging entrepreneurs to sell wares which nobody really wants. If the University wants to save the Shops--and it can--the answer is to lower the rent and fill the mall with stores students will want to frequent...
...certainly a law with teeth -- and a voracious appetite. Drafted in extremely unrestrictive language during a period of concern over organized crime, it enables conviction of all members of a "criminal enterprise," not just the gunsels. And its penalties are steep: up to 20 years in jail for each criminal count and triple damages in civil judgments. RICO quickly proved a sterling Mob stopper, as dozens of capos like New York City's John Gotti can testify. But when lawyers in the mid-'80s realized how broadly written it was, it mutated wildly. Prosecutors turned it on white-collar criminals...
...Rabin was also deeply concerned that Assad had offered no new assurances about security arrangements if Israel does withdraw from the Golan Heights. Rising in a steep escarpment to a height of 2,970 ft. on the Syrian-Israeli border, the Golan commands all the low ground that constitutes northern Israel. Syria repeatedly shelled Israeli kibbutzim from the Heights in the 1960s. Not a shot has been fired there since Henry Kissinger brokered a troop- separation accord in 1974, but poised on both sides are thousands of tanks, a bristling reminder of the state of war that has existed between...
...back to what we started to do in 1983, we've been consistent in what we've done. We have built shareholder value. We built a superb company, as evidenced by the fact that we have an auction going on. Somebody wants it and is willing to pay a steep price...
...between Russia and Weimar Germany: vast economic dislocations, hyperinflation, national humiliation and a disaffected officer class. Of course, there are notable differences too. For all its economic troubles, Russia does not suffer the massive unemployment that plagued Germany just after World War I. And rather than being slapped with steep reparations, Russia is receiving aid from abroad...