Word: steeped
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...report a combined net membership loss of 6.2 million, to a current 22.2 million, since the mid-1960s. Despite its many problems, Catholicism has held its own. By Roof's survey, 70% of those raised as Jews have dropped out, a disastrous loss that coincides with low birthrates, a steep increase of intermarriage with non-Jews, and the slim odds that children from such marriages will end up practicing the faith...
...currently uninsured Americans in the regular health care system. It would control costs better than slapping artificial price limits on drug companies or doctors. Medical expertise is expensive for a reason. It takes a lot of effort, education, intelligence and money to become a doctor. Drug costs reflect the steep expense of research. Price controls would hurt the quality of care in America by reducing the incentive for innovation...
...good as his word, Clinton is pushing a four-year, $7.4 billion appropriation for national service, the plan that would permit students to finance their post-secondary education by working for up to two years in a variety of community jobs. Even with a price tag that steep, however, the program can fund at most 150,000 Americans a year by 1997, a fraction of the potential demand and a far cry from Clinton's campaign pledge that "every young American could borrow the money necessary to go to college" by "giving two years of his life to rebuild America...
...steep salaries come in a year when the management company was outperformed by most of the nation's colleges and universities, and follow several years of low returns. HMC earned a return of 11.8 percent on the University's $5.1 billion endowment last year...
According to some experts, the article does not explain why tuition at liberal arts colleges has kept pace with research universities. And it does not take into account the tight budgetary belts many schools were forced to don during the steep period of inflation in the late 1970s and early 1980s...