Alexander Rose came up with this idea of a spiraloid tower with continuous sloping ramps.

We finally settled on a shape that was the proportion of the Concertgebouw with the sloping outside walls, which the acoustician said were crucial to this and later decided they weren't, but now we have them.

Beginning with the PROALCOOL programme, with its incentives for the expansion of alcohol production, sugar cane production in Brazil rose very steeply in only 10 years, or within two full plantation cycles.

The government is fighting at least two wars simultaneously taking on a deeply entrenched oligarchy, while trying to fend off its hostile eastern neighbor. Further trouble in the form a steeply declining economy is something it cannot afford.

The Yellow River flows here at great speed, and the stone walls on both sides are rising steeply. The river mouth becomes narrow like the spout of kettle, forming the situation that a thousand miles of Yellow River seems like to be collected into a kettle .

Instead of official forecasts of oil use and oil imports going forever up, they can turn down with the 12 dollars a barrel efficiency, down steeply by adding the supply side substitutions at 18 bucks, all implemented at slower rates than we've done before when we paid attention.

Third, we face steeply rising prices for fossil fuels, as developing countries growth drives up demand and conventional supplies of coal, oil, and gas are depleted. Sure, we can find more fossil fuels, but at much higher cost and at much greater environmental risk from industrial spills, waste products, leaks, and other damage.

As is typical of political revolutions, Egypt s economic situation has gone from bad to worse in the course of these power struggles. Revolutions tend to confront new governments with steeply rising social demands (for wage increases and higher welfare spending, for example) at a time of capital flight, financial turmoil, and deep disruptions of production.

Because educational attainment has been advancing only modestly in the US since the turn of the century, we would expect the wage gap to be rising steeply, as it did in the 1980s and 1990s. Instead, it has remained largely unchanged, and it is the unemployment rate among skilled workers that is on the rise, doubling in the US and the United Kingdom from 2000 to 2012.

Cycling at the height of summer in such a steeply pitched place as Croatia might not fit everyone's idea of luxury, but north Dalmatia is said to be an easier ride than south, our saddles are soft and when we filled in our booking forms in carefree and confident manner all those months ago there was a box we failed to tick that could have secured us the assistance of a battery powered e bike.

The total tax burden on families also includes sales taxes, which are steeply regressive, and property taxes, which are progressive. Total personal taxes are mildly progressive, increasing steadily as a share of income from 14 at the 10th percentile to 28 at the 90th percentile, but then falling off sharply to 22 at the top, owing to the favorable treatment of capital gains and investment income, the wage cap on social security taxes, and the sharp regressivity of sales taxes.