He considers Banksy's precipitous rise to be a cautionary tale.
"You had a fairly precipitous rise in rates by the Fed, a move in oil that surprised most people.
Not surprisingly, the fortunes of window manufacturers are tied closely to housing construction and have followed the same precipitous rise and fall.
We might actually feel better now if we had endured years of mediocre but steady growth instead of a precipitous rise and fall.
Other people's Legos!" But the precipitous rise in Children's Museums has been accompanied by a corresponding uptick in a devastating new medical pathology, known as Daddy Dropsy.
The precipitous rise of U.S. gas prices was straight from an economics textbook: with refineries out of commission, the supply of gas shrank, while demand stayed the same, and prices jumped.
Its Republican governor, Tim Pawlenty, is brandishing the scythe, arguing that the state spends too generously and taxes too heavily.Minnesota, like many states, has seen a steep decline in tax revenues coupled with a precipitous rise in health-care costs.
It's the speed of the fastest motorcycles on the planet, the dizzying trajectories of artists in a capricious world, the precipitous rise and decline of fortunes, reputations, social status, sanity and, perhaps most acutely, love.
"Rock Star" is the story of a precipitous rise followed by rapid disillusion, and the rise works well, but the disillusion is more abrupt than Chris's fall off that stage set.
The result has been poor nutrition, widespread weight gain, a precipitous rise in diabetes and little or no benefit to the health of the heart or any other organ.
