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When Caloza asked why the price of the massage—$50 for 15 minutes—was so steep, the woman replied that she would “make it worth his while,” Caloza said...
...opening the season with five wins in a row. The Crimson fought against a deficit almost all night, but BU’s hot hand from both the field and the arc—coupled with Harvard’s second half shooting woes—made it too steep of an uphill battle for the visitors.BU led most of the way, establishing its largest lead early in the second half. A 39-32 Terrier advantage swelled to 48-36 four minutes into the second frame, and it proved too much for the Crimson to overcome. It didn?...
...strongest rivals, such as Toyota and Nissan, haven't gone through decades of downsizing and don't bear that lopsided burden. At GM, each U.S. worker's production has to support 2.5 retirees, adding an average of $2,200 in legacy costs to the price of a vehicle, a steep disadvantage vs. foreign manufacturers. And the fewer vehicles GM sells, the worse the ratio gets...
...foggy nostrums. "I do not think that American forces need to be [in Iraq] in the numbers that they are now for very much longer," she told Fox News. Although Pentagon officials bristled at Rice's venturing into military policy, they too have started discussing in public just how steep the drawdown should be from the 160,000 U.S. troops now in Iraq...
...Inaction comes at a steep price. The environment is one of the leading causes of China's rising social unrest. Last year the government recorded 74,000 protests. This year, international and domestic media have kept busy reporting on numerous environmental protests, several of which have spiraled out of control, resulting in beatings, arrests, even deaths. In wealthy Zhejiang Province, for example, thousands of people mobilized throughout the spring and summer to protest chemical, pharmaceutical and battery factories that were polluting their land and water. In one case in April, up to 30,000 people living in and around...