They rise steeply at first, curve to a plateau and rise steeply again to the present.
Disappointing occupancy rates are raising questions about whether developers overestimated the market for such costly living arrangements, where monthly fees start at $3,000 for a small studio apartment and climb steeply from there.
Thereafter, though, it will climb steeply.
Crime rates rise steeply starting around age thirteen.
Hence, in order to attract firms to invest in the sector, governments usually have to raise charges steeply, a politically traumatic process.
Responding to the clamor, Foxconn has raised salaries steeply twice in the last five days.
He raised taxes steeply his first year, kept a lid on them, and brought in an era of rising bond ratings and credibility.
Oil prices have more than halved in the past two years after Saudi Arabia raised output steeply in an attempt to drive higher-cost producers such as US shale firms out of the market.
Ms. Feeny of Secure Horizons said that with drug costs rising, Secure Horizons had three choices: adding the new charges, driving away members by raising premiums steeply across the board, or closing up shop in some communities.
Even as a top aide to President Hamid Karzai unleashed a new round of hostile talk on television this week, accusing the United States of using the Taliban to divide Afghanistan, another disagreement — over customs fees and missing paperwork for American cargo shipments out of Afghanistan — leapt into the open and threatened to steeply raise the price tag for the United States military withdrawal.
