Word: steeped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hurt by the steep drop in cigarette prices, Philip Morris Companies announced it will eliminate 14,000 jobs, 8% of its work force, largely through attrition. Faced with similar price wars, AT&T's computer firm, NCR Corp., announced a work-force reduction...
...work and a reluctance by any of the trio to take the lead in shaping policy. And it is the mishandled episodes rather than the well-managed issues that create the image of a team out of its depth. Moreover, they work for a President who himself faces a steep learning curve on foreign policy and sometimes treats international issues as nuisances that keep him from dealing with priorities at home...
With a larger selection pool, the competition's going to be steep. Men against women, rich-alumni-son against rich-alumni-daughter. It's not going to be pretty. Maybe once the University endorses the clubs (and we just can't wait), they'll send in Archie C. Epps III to settle the dispute...
Another problem with the computer, according to students, is the steep price--$699 for the bare-bones unit. For that money, many students would rather invest in a more practical unit, according to Harvard Computer Society president Jeff Tarr...
...radical sports-gear breakthroughs (big-head tennis racquets and golf clubs, high-back plastic ski boots), the improvements are marginal and often largely cosmetic. Mountain bikes, for instance, are madly popular everywhere, but they are not really all that useful in the Northeast, where mountain trails are brutal and steep, composed mostly of rocks the size of refrigerators. You can't navigate them with a bike or, for that matter, with a humvee (the ultimate gearmobile, short of James Bond's Aston Martin with its ejecto seat...