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The major factors underlying this precipitous decline, Fraser says, are retreating sea ice and increasing snowfall.
(As for the precipitous drop-off, Ginsberg said, 'Come on, I'm dead.
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.
It's almost certain that the stock will fall in days to come, but its ride up has been so furious, and the company is such a good one, that it would be surprising if the tumble were too precipitous.
First, the abrupt end of the original data set followed by a string of zeros creates a sharp discontinuity and this artifact can cause problems in the resultant spectrum in the form of "side lobes" [ 47 48 ] . One strategy for addressing this problem is to apply so-called smoothing or weighting functions to make the drop to zero less precipitous and reduce the appearance in the spectrum of the resultant artifactual bands called side-lobes [ 47 48 37 ] . But techniques for side-lobe suppression are in themselves problematic.