Word: steeped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...California walkout was the most drastic response yet to the steep rise in premiums set by one of the nation's leading malpractice insurers, Argonaut Insurance Co. of Menlo Park, Calif. (TIME, May 5). Claiming that soaring malpractice awards were causing it to lose money, Argonaut last January announced that beginning in May it would raise its premiums for Bay Area physicians by 200% to 300%. Most physicians reluctantly purchased at least temporary-and limited-coverage, but few of the area's anesthesiologists, whose premiums rose from $5,377 to as high as $22,704 per year, renewed...
Mabou Mimas is a prominent mime group and part of the Loeb's program of bringing in outside non-dramatic theater. "B-Beaver" begins at 8 p.m,. "The Lost Ones" at 9:30 p.m. Mime must be a pretty expensive art to produce, since tickets are a steep $4.95 (rush seats are available...
...long-driver's course. You've got to flirt with the trees on the left, but gently. Too much left and you're in the woods. The ideal tee shot is a low, running draw that goes slightly left of center in order to catch a steep slope tilting toward the green, leaving you a two-or three-iron home. If you fade your drive to the right, you've got an impossible downhill-sidehill shot that is at least two club numbers longer. From the right side you can't hit the green, even...
...first plane out of the city, the priority flight, was reserved for Americans - the consular staff, reporters and other civilians - along with a few favored Vietnamese families. As the plane lifted off the runway in a steep, powerful climb, there was a strange sense of irreversible change. These evacuees were among the last Americans to leave Danang, finally ending a presence that had once symbolized America's involvement in Indochina. There was a powerful sense of tragedy too: they were leaving behind not a people grateful for the years of American sacrifice in Viet Nam but a people feeling...
...barely profitable 520 per Ib. (Retail prices in the U.S. have held at around $1.25 per Ib. because of increases in packaging and distribution costs.) Chief proponents of the partial embargo are Mexico and the Central American countries, whose coffee income has been hit by declining demand and steep rises in the cost of petroleum-based fertilizer...