In the wake of Sprague's precipitous departure from North Adams, and General Electric's from Pittsfield, and the remarkable recoveries they've made, I'm inclined to buy this theory.
Quick facts: An early 1990s article from Sports Illustrated details New Mexico State's precipitous slide from national presence under the Hall of Fame coach Warren Woodson to national afterthought for the four decades since.
And these people have been hit really hard by Ryan's precipitous plunge from icon to punchline, which is made much worse from their point of view by the fact that some of us warned years ago that Ryan was in fact an obvious con man.
The city is on pace to have about 50,000 police stops this year, a 75percentt drop from the number of stops last year and a still more precipitous decline from the nearly 700,000 police stops in 2011.
"And it has been a very precipitous drop from there".
But most people share Mr McCain's worries about a precipitous withdrawal from Iraq.
It marked a precipitous drop from the 10,300 metric tons imported in 2011.
The alley's closing is a precipitous fall from the fanfare that accompanied its opening.
The Patriots won the Super Bowl two years ago and avoided the usual precipitous fall from grace.
