In "human wave" assaults, they sent thousands of young men directly into the Iraqi lines, often to clear minefields, and soldiers died at a precipitous rate.
"We make a mistake if we are going to make our entire appeal rural and outside the Northeast and outside the Rust Belt," said Mr. King, of New York, who easily won re-election in a region shedding Republicans at a precipitous rate.
The media industry, which grew at a rate greater than 5.0% annually for four decades due to subscriber payments, affiliate fees and advertising revenues, is declining at an even more precipitous rate and there is little visibility for the future.
A Kaplan-Meier survival curve shows that there is a precipitous mortality rate beginning at P13 (Figure 1).
TEs in the intergenic spaces are subjected to a precipitous turnover rate in Triticeae genomes [ 4].
It has been proposed that better endurance would exhibit a less precipitous decay rate of the median frequency [ 55], though conflicting opinions exist [ 56].
"You had a fairly precipitous rise in rates by the Fed, a move in oil that surprised most people.
At a current natural gas price of $3.50 per million cubic feet drillers can barely make money on many shale wells, which require costly and water-hogging hydraulic "fracking," suffer precipitous volume-decline rates of 80% a year and lack easy access to pipelines.
A precipitous drop in crime rates has dovetailed with the other changes: homicide rates in the 44th Precinct, which covers High Bridge, along with Concourse Village, East and West Concourse and Mount Eden, fell 91 percent from 1990 to 2012; there were 8 murders last year, according to police data.
An aggressive public awareness campaign that urged medical treatment and monogamous sexual relationships led to a precipitous drop in infection rates in the 1990s.
