Word: downward
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brilliant had investigated sufficiently to become convinced that Hilton's top brass had rigged the market price prior to the offer in order to sell 101,000 of their own shares to the company at a fat personal profit. After that, the price of Hilton stock plunged downward, and the company passed its usual dividend...
Author Iglauer, the wife of The New Yorker Writer Philip Hamburger, flew to Northern Canada, attended the conferences as an observer, learned how to walk in deep snow (bend the knees to exert a forward rather than downward thrust) and got an Eskimo name: Oneekatualeeotae, "The woman who tells the story." She tells it deliberately and unemotionally, but she provides plenty for the reader to feel emotional about...
...that would profit from me," is a typical comment echoing in the dingy expanse of South Station. Cars that look as if they were resurrected from a railroad museum, rumors of past mismanagement, inadequate service--reality quickly catches up to growing myth as the New Haven continues on the downward track to oblivion. Today the railroad has seventy per cent fewer passengers than in 1922, less than half the freight revenue of 1943, one quarter the number of employees of forty years ago. Nothing, including reorganization under trusteeship after the New Haven filed for bankruptcy in 1961, seems to have...
...raised outer edge-much like the inside of a shallow bowl -the circular runway would provide great directional stability to a plane landing at high speed. It would prevent the plane from veering out of control to the right or left. Pulled outward by centrifugal force and downward by gravity, a fast-rolling plane would be confined to a circular path high against the outer, steeply sloping part of the runway. As its speed decreased, centrifugal force would lessen, and gravity would pull it in a slowly descending spiral toward the lower, more horizontal section...
...even more difficult. When an astronaut is behind his Gemini capsule he cannot simply increase his speed to catch up with it. Increased speed will put him into a higher orbit, which will make him fall farther behind. To overtake his Gemini capsule, he will have to fire his downward and forward thrusters alternately until he edges close to his target...