Word: steeping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Investigators say the strongest indication of a deliberate act lies in what the airplane did. No alarms signaling equipment breakdown or other emergency went off before the autopilot was disconnected. The steep descent was steady and controlled. The captain would not pull his control yoke up while the co-pilot pushed down. There was no radio mayday and evidently no attempt to signal a hijacking. The plane's final climb may be explained by traditional aerodynamics or by a pilot's desperate effort to regain altitude...
...service's auditors found that the cost of the kitchen renovation--estimated at $151,000--had ballooned to $308,000. That's steep, since taxpayers had paid to remodel the kitchen...
...steep challenge. Healing Indonesia's frayed psyche will mean confronting a host of ethnic and religious wounds, as well as tending to a shattered economy that the World Bank says has suffered the worst decline of any since World War II. And if the bizarre twosome of Wahid and Megawati, so different in almost every other aspect of their characters, have one thing in common, it is their lack of experience in government...
Rimmed by steep ridges and mountain shanties, the hamlet of Keystone, W. Va. (pop. 627), looks like a movie set left over from Coal Miner's Daughter. Main Street, all four blocks of it, has not a single traffic light. Yet the local bank in recent years has boasted one of the highest profit margins in the U.S., and reached $1 billion in assets in 1998. You might wonder how such a bank could thrive in one of the poorest counties in the U.S. And you'd be in good company, because bank examiners and the FBI wondered...
...service's auditors found that the cost of the kitchen renovation - estimated at $151,000 - had ballooned to $308,000. That?s steep, since taxpayers had paid to remodel the kitchen in 1988. And 1968. And 1958. Apparently, the place needed "seamless Corian countertops." That boosted the price 17 percent. And then there's the dishwasher that does a load in 90 seconds. It cost $4,717. Installation of the dishwasher incurred an additional $12,479. "Justification for this type of dishwasher," the auditors noted, "was not documented...