Word: steeping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Still, Iacocca's new venture faces a long, steep climb to success. The E-Bike is already nine months late to market (at an entrepreneurial burn rate of $150,000 a month) because of the technical difficulties in producing a finely tuned hybrid to Iacocca's exacting specifications. Instead of selling through bike dealers, EVG will peddle the E-Bike through auto dealers, where advertising budgets are gargantuan and Iacocca's credit impeccable...
...stock portfolio when you've got baseball memorabilia? Mark McGwire's 70th home-run ball (not even the one that broke Ruth's record) set its own record at auction last week. But don't bet the farm on your signed Hank Aaron mitt yet. It's a steep drop to the next nine highest prices paid for sports memorabilia at public auction...
...meet had a lot more intensity than most of our meets," Baxter said. "We knew it was extremely close and Coach [Steep] Wriede told us beforehand that we needed to sweep...
...should be no surprise that as the presidency is teetering, people are quick to look for hints that the marriage is too. Those who have socialized with them in recent months see signs both that healing is under way and that it will be a very long, steep climb. The President shows a new tentativeness when he is with his wife, looking to see if she thinks a joke is funny before he laughs, and for the first time deferring to her choice in what movies they select, watching fewer car chases and more dramas. Where she used to have...
...comfortable armchairs--anything would have been an improvement over the previous furniture, which seemed to have been made up of items collected at various rummage sales. The C'est Bon cafe in the mezzanine is convenient to the back of the new auditorium, which has seats positioned on a steep incline two stories high, somewhat like a scaled-down version of an omni-max theater. Having taken classes in both the old and new auditoriums, Lee Hampton '01 considers the new room "an improvement, but not a life-changing experience...the view is better than the old auditorium...