Precipitously Quotes

With Microsoft taking the bottom out of the market's pricing structure, we are going to see that business slow down even more precipitously. - Richard Williams

Why did Sen. Frist suddenly decide to sell the stock in June after holding the stock for so long? Also, did the Senator order the sale based on insider knowledge that the value of the stock was about to decline precipitously? - Melanie Sloan

We should not be acting precipitously to undermine the basic tenet of this program, that has worked well for 70 years by providing a defined, guaranteed benefit. - Olympia Snowe

They discovered that inventory levels had dropped precipitously for the second month in a row. That meant we were working out of this excess inventory and they liked that enough. - Arthur Cashin

There will be capital investment upfront for technology, but the ongoing cost of procurement will drop precipitously to benefit taxpayers and government. - Howard Stern

There used to be this feeling under Eisenhower and Kennedy and Roosevelt and Truman that government was a solution. Trust in the presidency fell precipitously under Johnson - real lows. And it's never come back. It's a trend that, if you're liberal, is really discouraging. - Robert Caro

The system was stressed yesterday, so things were not as smooth as we had hoped, but it was only the first day. The complaints we are hearing today have fallen precipitously. - Jeffrey Hall

The pink slip is precipitously delivered. It's not as if the worker caused the job loss, nor is it that they even wanted to shift gears or that they were tired. - Ruth Luban