Word: steepness
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...beginning, where you are on a steep learning curve, sometimes it is a little rough getting started. I suspect that there was too much emphasis placed on learning the new technology," Reina says...
...should you turn off the TV? Studies have shown that unusual volatility is as likely to precede a sharp run-up as a sharp decline. If you're invested for the long haul, why put yourself through the agony of watching short-term declines--especially ones as steep as last Friday's--that tempt you to panic? I don't mean to pick on CNBC. But it's the market leader in televised stock talk, and when the market is sinking, the anchors' grim faces and funereal tones only quicken your despair. Once weaned from hourly updates, you'll find...
Shouts of encouragement and blasting music also helped the runners climb the infamous Heartbreak Hill--a steep part of the course in Newton...
...President faces steep fines and even jail time for his alleged misdeeds. To an extent, as a private citizen the odds are stacked against him. The independent counsel does not have the same time or cost constraints as a traditional prosecutor - in fact, he has a team of lawyers devoted exclusively to building as many separate cases as possible against a single defendant. This power is somewhat nullified in the courtlike settings of an impeachment trial, as congressmen are given to partisanship and voting the will of the public. Such benefits would be lost in a jury trial...
...China Europe International Business School in Shanghai, which was funded by the city's municipal government and the European Union. Another program is the Center for Business Skills Development, established in Shanghai two years ago in affiliation with Arizona's Thunderbird American Graduate School of International Management. Despite steep fees--about $10,000 annually, more than three times what a Chinese program costs--and an English-language curriculum, such programs are raking in applicants. Some multinational firms are doling out thousands of dollars in tuition scholarships...