Cell phone providers usually charge a very steep overage rate.

Safety board sources close to the inquiry said the flight had been descending at an unusually steep rate of about 3,500 feet per minute.

Companies slashed their inventories at the steepest rate in years.

They are seriously disciplined at a steeper rate than their higher-court colleagues.

But even with these steep rates, few of the businesses that the fund has lent money to have defaulted.

But "core" inflation, excluding food and energy prices, also climbed at a fairly steep rate of 2.1 percent.

And the steepest rate of increase is among educated and professional women.

The chamber said it would broadcast the advertisements only if the institute paid for them at steep commercial rates.

Counting only the 15 or so professionals who were said to be most actively involved implies an even steeper rate of $48,000 an hour.

Teaching was not about money, though she charged steep rates.