Word: steeped
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Even for a duke of cyberspace like Bill Gates, the price seemed steep. In 1994 he paid the estate of oil baron Armand Hammer $30.8 million for one of Leonardo da Vinci's lesser notebooks. Compared with the Renaissance master's other surviving manuscripts, Codex Leicester (named for the English family that owned it for two centuries) is trifling, just 18 sheets of linen paper folded in half to produce 72 pages. It contains only modest samples of Leonardo's celebrated draftsmanship--no spectacular drawings of flying machines, no cutaways of the human anatomy or exploded views of geared gadgetry...
...welfare reform. "There's a lot of good information we have now because of the [welfare] waivers that have been granted [to the states] in the last several years," she said. "There has to be a transfer of knowledge across state boundaries. There are going to be some really steep learning curves." She went on contentedly for a while, until she was asked about the first term and the hard lessons learned. "I'm sure there are lots and lots of lessons, things we did that could have been done better," Hillary said, but she didn't come up with...
...dare to navigate the perilously steep stairs, you'll find the trip more than worth the effort. Singh says he's looking forward to meeting...
...remain profitable, however, lenders want cardholders to pile up big debts. Consumers who pay off their balances each month are known in the industry's distorted parlance as "deadbeats" because they avoid steep interest charges. GE, which offers its Reward cardholders cash rebates worth as much as 2% of their purchases, put the deadbeats on notice last month with its $25 prompt-payment fee. "If there is not a tremendous consumer backlash," says Susswein, "we will see more companies punish cardholders for paying in full...
...better is one of physiology. When we look down, our eyes seem to close and our chins drop--incidentally, the same pose as a sleeper. Also, since craning one's neck upwards is uncomfortable, professors usually just look at the first few rows in rooms that have a steep slope (and I don't mean the grading curve). On the other hand, if the professor is on a raised stage, it's obvious who's sleeping and who's not. It's about impossible to sleep with you neck raised upwards, and even if you could your eyes would...