Word: steep
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rise in nickel prices had been expected, but the increase from $1.03 per Ib. to $1.28 was the largest in this century. Inco rested its case for the steep rise as much on its plan to spend $600 million for expansion by 1973 as it did on the wage increases. Even without the strike-induced shortage, the world demand for nickel has been outpacing supply, and the imbalance could continue for several years...
...Steep, narrow streets, wrinkled old Chinese selling vegetables, white matrons walking with their arms full of laundry, families of tourists admiring the shops and looking for a Chinese restaurant. People smile, stop and talk on the street; it is predictably peaceful. But in Portsmouth Square, 200 people mill around a rostrum. On the platform are an army bugler, a line of speakers and a big sign that says...
...opposition forced Pusey to shelve the plans for Shady Hill; during the next ten years the land remained vacant, fenced off, while Cambridge began to experience a steep rise in demand for housing...
...Crimson backfield was impressive. Its crisp passing and superb running from a steep formation kept Brown in defensive trouble, and even when scrum-half Phil Ordway was forced out of the game with a lacerated chin. it remained cohesive...
...factor affecting the size of the market-and the fares-will be the selling price of the SST, now calculated at $40 million a plane. The price of developing new airplanes has an unsettlingly steep rate of climb. The Concorde's development costs so far have almost quadrupled to $1.72 billion, and the price tag has risen from $ 12 million a plane to $21 million...