81.   Steep base price.

82.   Steep price cuts to clear unpopular styles from the racks ate into gross margin.

83.   Store managers reported that DVD players, surround-sound audio systems and wide-screen televisions led the buying surge, largely because of steep price cuts.

84.   Tales of families being crowded into cramped apartments, steep prices and school overcrowding began to trickle out of Geneva.

85.   Such protection comes at a steep price.

86.   Steep prices for the collectible toys have left some Beanie lovers aghast.

87.   Still, station buyers, particularly News Corp., are paying a steep price.

88.   That decline in demand would be compounded if cigarette companies attempted to offset steep price increases by using more cheap foreign tobacco.

89.   That fall came amid fears that steep price cuts on its Pentium chips would eat into profits this summer.

90.   That resulted in Evergreen paying a steep price for the Viacom unit, analysts said.