The subgrade, the six-level basement, contains galleries of enormous pipes; specially built motors that power the oversized air compressors; abandoned subway tracks that tunnel from nowhere to nowhere; and four blocks of debris-strewn loading docks visited steadily, like temple altars, by trucks leaving pallet after pallet of offerings.
Nevertheless, because the overall number of ED visits has steadily increased, even small percentages imply that large absolute numbers of higher acuity patients are being managed by MLPs alone.
As consequence of the large amount of exploration, the number of possible places to visit increases steadily over time, reaching on average almost 200 in one year.
The annual number of emergency room visits has been steadily rising.
Moreover, the frequency of ambulatory visits in hospitals steadily increased from 3.9% in 1997 to 6.6% in 2002.
Therapeutic intensity, defined as the average number of compounds used per treatment visit, has increased steadily over time, from an average of 1.32 compounds per visit in 1997 to 1.68 compounds per visit in 2012, a 27% increase over 15 years.
Since then the number of places that are safe to visit has dwindled steadily.
And in late 2011, as various rivals basked in the media spotlight, Mr Santorum quietly, doggedly, steadily visited every county in Iowa, the first state to vote.
Improvement in BCVA from baseline was maintained up to the second follow-up visit during the maintenance phase, at Month 5. Subsequent to this visit, mean BCVA declined steadily over time during the maintenance phase, from 0.233 at Month 5 to 0.192 at Month 15 (Fig. 2a).
With cheap, long-maturity government debt and an independent currency, there is no reason on Earth to think that closing the deficit more steadily would visit a Greek crisis on these shores.
