Word: steep
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Dillon feels that a quick cut this year would wreck the Administration's plans for broad reform next year. Treasury experts have been working on the outlines of a reform bill for more than a year. Under present plans, cuts in rates under the reform bill would be steep enough so that the measure would bring overall tax reductions-but some taxpayers now benefiting heavily from special provisions might find themselves owing more income tax rather than less as a result of the bill's loophole-closing provisions...
...have usually been bullied and ideologically "reformed" by Communist bosses, the 900 Meissen workers have been left in relative peace to do their jobs in the painstaking traditional way. As a result, while most East German goods are hopelessly shoddy, Meissen china has retained its traditional quality, commands a steep price wherever it is sold, e.g., a twelve-place dinner setting of the bestselling "Blue Onion" design costs $500 in New York. Next to optical products and cameras, Meissen is East Germany's best hard-currency earner...
There was no violence; on the contrary, the drab little towns in the steep Asturian valleys took on a holiday air as idle workers strolled the streets with their families, or gathered at cafes to drink cider or the red wine of Leon and eat chorizos, the popular peppered sausages. Many listened to Radio Espafia Independiente. the Communist transmitter that spews its anti-Franco propaganda from Prague. Czechoslovakia (featuring La Pasionaria. legendary Red amazon of the Civil War). Since Franco's own press and radio were suppressing the whole matter. Prague was the only Spanish-language source of news...
...were in Washington," says the University of Chicago's Lorie, "I would ponder the fact that the really steep decline of the stock market started at the time of the Kennedy-Blough battle. I would ponder that, because to a great extent our growth, our prosperity and our hopes of moving the country forward depend on the confidence of businessmen, large and small, and their expectations for the future. If those expectations are damaged, that could be much more serious than the stock market decline...
George Cabot Lodge is the unquestioned favorite for the Republican nomination, but will face a very steep up-hill battle against the Democratic candidate. Unless Kennedy and McCormack badly scar each other at the convention and in the primary, Lodge can expect to remain a former Assistant Secretary of Labor for some time to come...