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The cover story by Michael Lewis relives the enviable rise--and precipitous fall--of Long-Term Capital.
Around every turn, you’ll marvel at how the houses can be built on such precipitous slopes.
There were solid reasons for the sharp decline in the value of equities in Hong Kong itself, most obviously the precipitous rise in interest rates and the precipitous drop in liquidity as the central bank fights to keep the HK dollar pegged to the U.S. dollar.
The major factors underlying this precipitous decline, Fraser says, are retreating sea ice and increasing snowfall.
San Diego is, fortunately for Times roving crime reporter Fox Butterfield, a city with one of the most precipitous drops in burglary, larceny, and auto theft, so he could rove there instead of Duluth to find out what's going on.