precipitously

Anything that causes stock prices to fall precipitously is going to be perceived as a failure by a pretty big swath of the middle and upper middle classes.

Matthew Yglesias » Was Health Reform a Political Blunder? How Could We Know? 2010

F Neal Pitt, the second-leading rebounder in the MEAC last season, missed seven games due to injury and saw his numbers (7.4 points, 5.9 rebounds) decline precipitously from the 16 points and 8.1 rebounds he averaged last season.

MD. Eastern Shore - Team Notes 2010

F Neal Pitt, the second-leading rebounder in the MEAC last season, missed seven games due to injury and saw his numbers (7.4 points, 5.9 rebounds) decline precipitously from the 16 points and 8.1 rebounds he averaged last season.

Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference 2010

So we have tried to do sort of a stress test, if you will, on all of these investments, to make sure that even if they fall fairly precipitously, that is market prices, that these still make sense.

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We are owed a substantial seven-figure sum by various advertisers and business partners, but as with everyone else in media, payments to us have slowed precipitously, which is turn has crippled our ability to pay our bills on time.

Dealbreaker 2009

We are owed a substantial seven-figure sum by various advertisers and business partners, but as with everyone else in media, payments to us have slowed precipitously, which is turn has crippled our ability to pay our bills on time.

Dealbreaker 2009

We are owed a substantial seven-figure sum by various advertisers and business partners, but as with everyone else in media, payments to us have slowed precipitously, which is turn has crippled our ability to pay our bills on time.

Dealbreaker 2009

We are owed a substantial seven-figure sum by various advertisers and business partners, but as with everyone else in media, payments to us have slowed precipitously, which is turn has crippled our ability to pay our bills on time.

Dealbreaker 2009

Midmonth, Health GAP, an independent activist organization, reported that antiretroviral-treatment programs at the JCRC and other clinics in Uganda were being "precipitously" transferred to government hospitals, which did not have the drugs to handle them.

AIDS Programs Hit Setbacks in Africa 2010

But let's all pretend we did (or will soon enough, though certainly never "precipitously," so leave us alone).

Anthony Arnove: Let's Not and Say We Did 2008