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The value of the peso had been declining precipitously, undermining Mexico's ability to borrow money or to repay existing debts.

I believe that if we were precipitously to withdraw from Baghdad at this point, there would be a dramatic increase in sectarian violence.

If a stock declines precipitously, particularly within a year of a public offering, a lawsuit is almost assured.

He held his hand out in the air, plotting an imaginary line that dropped precipitously to his knees.

The meal over, the guests rush away. They rush away precipitously, as if they feared a plague.

With sales dropping precipitously, auto makers haven't been able to cut production fast enough to prevent inventory increases.

The Baker-Hamilton group is right to say that America should neither leave precipitously nor stay forever.

You may have had problems collecting money owed to you, or saw college financial aid decrease suddenly and precipitously.

The old Bousque woman always arrived precipitously, as if she were short on time.

Since the human genome was sequenced six years ago, the cost of producing a high-quality genome sequence has dropped precipitously .

The road winds around itself, climbing precipitously towards the Sela pass, the entrance to the long Tawang valley.

Third, given this growth of global liquidity, long- and short-term interest rates began to fall precipitously.

Brokers say that sales volumes first dropped precipitously here in southeastern China, and then the decline spread across the country.

But for reasons not fully understood, from around last autumn demand began to drop precipitously.

One may speculate, but one must refrain from resorting too precipitously to the language of the body.

Yes, the percentage of advertising revenue that drives profit has slipped precipitously and no one expects a return to the golden years.

Of course, foreign vintners probably rushed into things a bit precipitously.

Overall computer performance falls off precipitously as the computer's RAM utilization close to 100%.

Much of that came in Sand State markets such as Las Vegas Miami and Phoenix, where prices for all properties are have fallen precipitously.

'My first recommendation would be: Take your time, go slow, don't do anything precipitously, ' says A. J. Barranco.

But as private companies absorb water systems throughout the country, the cost of water has risen precipitously.

Universa purchased 50, 000 options that would come into the money if the S& P index tumbled precipitously.

But sales volumes in important cities, including Shanghai, Beijing and Shenzhen, have fallen precipitously in recent months.

Transitional arrangements are in place to ensure that banks cannot slash their capital reserves precipitously.

(In the months following the scandal, which reached its zenith in June, donations to the charity dropped off precipitously).

Growth has fallen precipitously in recent months and the economy may even be contracting, yet inflation has declined only marginally.

But once the downturn hit, the number of businesses began falling precipitously.

After the WHI was initially halted, the number of women taking HRT dropped precipitously.

Tuna stocks are declining precipitously due to overfishing.

However, in the playoffs, their winning percentage has fallen precipitously .

Without this ice melt, the grain harvest would drop precipitously and prices would rise accordingly.

No doubt American neocons have already prepared the groundwork for blaming Obama who is allegedly withdrawing precipitously from Baghdad.

But the real estate industry had fallen off precipitously, bringing building to a near standstill.

Various insiders report that user numbers have declined precipitously.

His own research suggests that testosterone levels drop precipitously in men with BMIs of 40 and higher.

Even so, last autumn the won fell precipitously against the dollar.

And because exercise can cause blood-sugar levels to drop precipitously, athletes with Type 1 face special challenges.

'You don't want to quit precipitously since you can traumatize yourself even more by facing extended unemployment. '

In the east, the mountains descend precipitously to the Pacific.

According to the new study, as well as the study I wrote about in March, women's sexual ardor declines precipitously after menopause.

So African agriculture, which is the place of most hunger in the world, has actually fallen precipitously as hunger has risen.

In life and business, there are two cardinal sins. The first is to act precipitously without thought and the second is to not act at all.

the mountains rose precipitously from the shore.

Opinion polls show public support for the government falling precipitously.

Spending on consumer durable goods like autos dropped precipitously in 1930.

In the past decade the trade in land mines also has dropped precipitously, as has the laying of new mines.

Anderson's thesis is that web browsers are precipitously declining as the dominant way of using the internet.

Then the flows will drop off precipitously.

The death toll from the initial quake has been rising precipitously, and Chinese officials say the final tally could exceed 80, 000.

Much better to find "U. S. drops precipitously" .

That was primarily motivated by a fear that mail would decline precipitously and they needed a new source of income.

This world, and by extension this world of work, is changing quickly and precipitously.

Putin's work in East Germany was precipitously drawing to a close.

Torrential rains and precipitously high water levels last year strained the dam and led officials to downplay its ability to control floods.

Oil prices, which peaked last year at over $140 a barrel, fell precipitously afterwards on fears the global downturn would damp demand.