"Our only concern is the precipitous way it has been implemented".
Twelve of us were wedged — somewhat precariously, I thought — in one of Asif's Pajeros, as he drove us along a precipitous mountain road on our way to an old hill station of the Raj for a family outing.
We wound our way up a precipitous road and through the Lowari Tunnel, essentially a long, glorified cave that cuts through the side of the mountain and is totally unlit except for the odd lantern. .
And didn't the the big banks' last attempt to lend their way out of a precipitous economy, in the late 1980s, lead to gigantic bad debts?
In this view, pushing the dollar's value down in a controlled and gradual way would reduce the risk of a precipitous and destabilizing decline down the road.
In fact, the quickest way for America to become like Europe is a precipitous reduction of the federal spending.
This goes a long way toward explaining why President Obama has suffered such a precipitous drop in confidence among Independents.
But the big surprise, Mulholland says, was that increasing nitrate concentrations caused a precipitous drop in absorption efficiency--meaning much more nitrate could make its way downstream if nitrate loads continue to increase.
Despite increases in arrivals, tourism industry professionals say that Hawaii has a ways to go before it can fully recover from a precipitous drop in business that began in 2008.
