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...opposition forced Pusey to shelve the plans for Shady Hill; during the next ten years the land remained vacant, fenced off, while Cambridge began to experience a steep rise in demand for housing...
...Crimson backfield was impressive. Its crisp passing and superb running from a steep formation kept Brown in defensive trouble, and even when scrum-half Phil Ordway was forced out of the game with a lacerated chin. it remained cohesive...
...factor affecting the size of the market-and the fares-will be the selling price of the SST, now calculated at $40 million a plane. The price of developing new airplanes has an unsettlingly steep rate of climb. The Concorde's development costs so far have almost quadrupled to $1.72 billion, and the price tag has risen from $ 12 million a plane to $21 million...
...often amounts to an interest-free loan for several months. Reason: banks take time in processing the bills, and payment is not due until 25 days after the billing date. Even then, payments can be spaced out, though interest charges amount to as much as 18% a year. Such steep charges can make the cards quite profitable for banks...
...thought we'd both die," she remembers, "so Jim and I said goodbye to each other." She walked all night, guided only by moonlight. Once, hemmed in by sheer canyon walls, she had to scale an almost vertical cliff while "simply hanging from the rocks." Later, on a steep downhill grade, she was so exhausted she simply lay down and rolled until she stopped. Finally, near dawn, some Gaza Arabs working on a new road heard her weak cries of "Shalom!" and found her. Taken to Bethlehem and treated, she led a 30-man police platoon that afternoon...