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Though U.S. banks boast mounting profits, the credit quality of their loan portfolios has declined precipitously.
So Starr insisted to the press that he had made his decision without regard to the investigation's outcome--whereupon pundits concluded that he was a cad to leave precipitously.
The problem, of course, is that--as with overcapacity everywhere else--if everyone maximizes output, everyone loses, because the price falls precipitously.
Also, there really ought to be a category for "ecstatically happy," which Chatterbox suspects rises precipitously when you get above $1 billion.
There are rock-world observers who never considered Courtney a rebel, who dismissed her as a marginally talented opportunist who married well and whose stock rose precipitously after her husband committed suicide.