Adjusted for splits, it rose from $5.125 in 1985 to a high of $52.875 last August, before beginning its abrupt descent.

And as for carousels . . . The abrupt descent of a mental lead curtain ended the debate about carousels.

The reasons for the abbey's abrupt descent into debt are unclear.

Touches of religious kitsch did little to dispel the bleakness of the scene, right up to the comically abrupt descent of a peace dove at the end.

It does not present a uniformly abrupt descent to the plains, but in places, as in the lower Zambezi district, slopes gradually to the coast.

By contrast to the south east the fell ends in White Horse Bent, the abrupt ridge-end descent to the Glenderamackin.

"It impacted hard," Mr. Pardue said of the aircraft's abrupt descent.

Janey wailed, in an abrupt descent from a miniature of her rationalist father to a bored six-year-old.

Besides," he added, with an abrupt descent to the practical, "students cannot afford bioenhancing operations.