Word: steeped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...former slave-trading port of Sur lies a 5,000-sq.-mi. sea of sand whose dune ridges rise as high as 350 ft. above the Wahiba desert floor. To the north, the Jebel Akhdar (Green Mountain) anchors the Hajar range. Mud-brick houses cling to its steep slopes, and fortresses whose foundations precede the age of Islam guard entry to its valleys...
...steep fall prompted many investors to suspect that Japan's high-flying stock market may finally be headed for a major correction. One factor depressing the market is a widespread belief that the Bank of Japan will boost interest rates to fight inflation, a move that would be likely to slow the country's economic growth. The trade talks between the U.S. and Japan, which resumed last week, were also a source of gloom. Ironically, yet another notable cause of last week's volatility is an American export, program trading, which a growing number of firms are now practicing...
...subjects must be as similar as possible so that the treatment is the only variable. A study that includes both men and women must generally be larger -- and more expensive -- than a males-only trial to have the same degree of statistical validity. Though the costs may be steep, an increase in testing of women is called for. As for pharmaceuticals that are already available, some researchers feel that the Government should make a greater effort to monitor their effects on women...
...steep run-up has prompted Congressmen and consumer advocates to accuse oil companies of taking advantage of the deep freeze to gouge their customers. Citizen Action, a consumer group, says the profits that refiners were making on residential heating oil in the Northeast jumped at least 150% in the past three months; in New Jersey the increase was 314%. Last week the Energy Department said it was launching a study to determine whether oil companies colluded to raise prices...