Word: downward
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...next. "By the time I returned to my seat, the horizontal force was at least five Gs (five times that of gravity), making it impossible for me to fasten my seat belt . . . Then it eased up a bit to maybe one or two Gs. But the plane was continuing downward. Clearly the pilot was trying to pull up, but I didn't know how on earth he could do it. It was like being in a high-speed Porsche on an incredible turn...
Each rumor sends a shock wave through Washington. Veterans' groups protested when stories appeared suggesting that their hospital benefits would be cut. Government employees cried out when it was reported that their pension increases would be modified downward. Farm lobbies screamed over the possibility that subsidies would be hacked. Education groups rallied against the hint that Reagan would try again to eliminate the Department of Education. "The best thing to do," declared a member of the Business Roundtable, "is pull up a chair and watch the poker game." It is some game...
...grown proportionately more powerful in Indian society, nor has it undermined the civilian authority, both of which events have occurred in Pakistan. Indian defense expenditures have averaged between three and five percent of GNP since 1947--nearly the lowest level in the Third World--with a slight downward trend. Also, the military is all-volunteer, and at slightly over one million men it is near or at the bottom of the Third World in percentage of population...
...Mondale had difficulty dramatizing his themes. His early advertising spots focused on the deficit, but the issue would not catch on. It was too hypothetical. He raised the question of fairness. But in prosperous times, the middle class tends to focus its gaze upward, not downward...
When Iran and Iraq started firing missiles and rockets at Persian Gulf oil tankers this spring, some energy experts predicted that gasoline prices would rise. But that has not been the case. Prices at the pump are drifting downward. The U.S. average was $1.246 per gal. just before the Independence Day holiday. That was the lowest midsummer price since 1979 and 2.4? per gal. below last year's Fourth of July level. Prices for leaded regular have, in some cases, dropped to around $1 in such metropolitan areas as Houston and New York...