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Council aides also identified steep cuts in the legal departments of other agencies: all 40 lawyers at the Department of Correction for a savings of $2 million; 21 of 28 lawyers at the Department of Sanitation, saving $945,000; and seven of 10 lawyers at the Department of Buildings, $451,000 in savings.
Today's Nasdaq sell-off was relatively steep (although you have to remember that with the Nasdaq near 3,000, 71 points is just not panic-inducing).
A steep road of hairpin turns leads up into the serra from Sintra to the town’s most spectacular monuments.
Otherwise head through the airy but unexceptional modern city to the historic center of Old Québec, where the fortified Upper and Lower Town stand at the top and bottom of Cap Diamant, linked by a steep road and funicular railway.
But the engraving cost is a steep $175 and $42 for the die plate.