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...steepest course we've run this year," Steele said, "and I do much better on steep courses." He said he concentrated on not making mistakes, "not catching a tip, not letting my edges slide out." Steele said that many of the other competitors leaned into the gates and found themselves slipping off line...
Badge of Honor. For some, sitting through the film has become a badge of honor, like riding the steepest roller coaster in the amusement park. "I've been in this business 47 years, and I've never seen anything like it," asserted Los Angeles Theater Manager Harry Francis. He estimates that each performance exacts an audience toll of four blackouts, half-a-dozen bouts of vomiting and multiple spontaneous exits...
...seemed almost too good to be true. After a summer of roller coasting up and down, the Wholesale Price Index for September dropped 1.5%, seasonally adjusted-its steepest slide in a quarter-century. Prices of farm goods, the worst culprits in this year's inflationary saga, led the decline, dropping 5.2%. Costs for livestock, corn, vegetables, fruit, live poultry and eggs were all substantially lower...
...steepest and most painful increases are coming in food. Britons are paying 30% more for fish and pork, and 40% more for "cheap" chuck steak. Former Prime Minister Harold Wilson recently told a Labor Party meeting that his wife Mary was "almost in tears" as she watched "a little old lady moving from one part of a shop to the other, pricing all the things she wanted." The woman finally walked out "clutching a pathetic little plastic package of two slices of meat loaf...
...course had been changed for the second run, and as he approached the steepest section, Steele said he "forgot where I was for a second" and "turned in the middle of a gate instead of on the pole which put me low for the next...