This also generally avoids the steeper taxes and stricter regulations associated with distilled spirits.

Taking a major stride back into the world's financial mainstream, the Malaysian Government lifted a steep tax on the repatriation of foreign capital today.

Mr. Peterson does not shy away from steep new taxes.

Polls have long shown them preoccupied with youth emigration, some of the steepest taxes among the democracies and a 20 percent unemployment rate.

The next summer he summoned his knights to impose a steep tax.

Almost certainly, they would include steep new taxes and sharp cuts in benefits for affluent retirees.

More middle class families each year are stuck with paying the steep alternative minimum tax.

Lenders say the reserve is meant to ease the pain of steep tax or insurance increases.

That would mean deeper cuts, steeper taxes or both.

Players in both sports believe that those steep taxes would prompt teams to reduce their payrolls.