Word: steeped
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...stakes are high. This week a study in the American Journal of Industrial Medicine reports a steep rise in brain-cancer rates over the past dozen years. If the increased incidence of such cancers could be linked to electromagnetism in the home or workplace, liability suits could clog the courts. Property values near power lines and electric substations are plummeting. If the utilities have to bury or reroute those systems, the cost of doing business could take a sharp jump...
...shadow of New Mexico's Sangre de Cristo Mountains, a buck with a velvet rack picks his way across a steep hillside, followed by three does. Hearing a noise, the deer turn toward a meadow filled with oak trees and sunflowers that glisten like gold coins. A band of backpacking Boy Scouts stare wide-eyed at this moment of natural theater...
...University could consider a policy in effect at several other schools and levy a special annual fee on users of electrical appliances (something like $5 per computer, $15 per stereo or microwave, $25 per television, etc.). Random inspections (the same ones that root out illegal poster-hanging methods) and steep fines for evaders would suffice to enforce payment of the fees...
...ride down has been almost as steep as the climb up. In 1990 alone, share prices in both funds have dropped more than 30% (see graph). Even on a long- term basis, the Fund for Income and the High Yield Fund are among the industry's worst performers. Benalder Bayse Jr., who from 1985 to 1989 ran both funds, testified with immunity at Milken's presentencing hearing that a Milken crony, Roy Johnson, helped him land what he described as a "lucrative job" at First Investors. Thereafter, according to Bayse, Johnson funneled junk bonds to him, both for the mutual...
...drug most face a huge barrier: treatment costs nearly $9,000 a year. The drug is a patented product, available in the U.S. under the brand name Clozaril only from New Jersey-based Sandoz Pharmaceuticals, a subsidiary of Sandoz International of Basel, Switzerland. The company's explanation for the steep price is that clozapine occasionally causes fatal side effects, so patients must be required to have regular blood tests to make sure they are tolerating the drug. The expense of the tests pushes clozapine beyond the reach of the majority of schizophrenics, many of whom are poor and underinsured...