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• r  in a steep manner
  the street rose steeply up to the castle

• Four miles short of the base, the Globemaster slammed steeply into a watermelon patch, broke up and caught fire, skittering bits of burning metal at a frightened Japanese farmer .
• When the TU-144 pilot performed the same maneuver he pulled the nose up so steeply l didn't believe he could possibly recover .
• But when crude oil is expensive, as it is now, these alternative energy sources can also be sold at market-competitive prices, rising steeply in relation to petroleum.

News & Articles

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• More Russian Oil Flows to China in Shift From Europe
  Russia is steeply ramping up oil deliveries to China, with Asia now importing almost a fifth of oil exports from the world's largest crude producer in a strategic shift meant by the Kremlin to end reliance on weak and saturated European markets. Russia will increase oil supplies to China by 13 percent in July-September from the previous three months, a shipping schedule obtained by Reuters ...
  June 18, 2013 - Voice of America
• Oregon jobless rate falls below 8 percent
  SALEM — The unemployment rate in Oregon has dipped below 8 percent for the first time since the nation fell steeply into the Great Recession in the fall of 2008. The state unemployment rate was 7.8 percent in May and, after a revision, 7.9 percent in April, the state Employment …
  June 18, 2013 - The Register-Guard
• Germany Has Become the Cut-Rate Prostitution Capital of the World
  The presence of thousands of brothels and hundreds of thousands of prostitutes has heightened competition and pushed prices down steeply in the German sex trade. One tourist from Florida, who visits the country three times annually to pay for cheap sex, compares the scene to a discount supermarket: “Germany is like Aldi for prostitutes,” he says. Prostitution became legal in Germany in 2002, and ...
  June 18, 2013 - It's Your Money

Quotes

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• Ban Ki-moon in Reuters UK
  This steeply rising price of food has developed into a real global crisis,Ban told journalists in Vienna.
• Josef Pröll in Environment News Service
  Each year without mitigation measures is a year which drives the human and financial cost of adaptation steeply upwards,Pröll said.
• Klaus Kleinfeld in MarketWatch
  Recently, aluminum prices have fallen steeply and demand has softened further, while input costs remain high,said Kleinfeld.