Word: downward
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...THIS writing, the downward spiral of the Aquino administration is continuing. Military commanders, unimpressed with Aquino's brand of leadership, are increasingly drawn to Honasan; the people, seeing the administration threatened, are beginning to lose faith in Aquino as a capable president...
...smart enough to paw through the snow like horses, so you have to feed them," one child explained. A Sioux student on a reservation in South Dakota wrote candidly about what is happening to one branch of the tribe: "Life for the Lakota people is going in a downward direction . . . To control it would take great human power or magic...
...about gargantuan budget and trade deficits. Not a sharp drop in the value of the U.S. dollar between 1985 and mid-1987. Not even the stock-market equivalent of the law of gravity, specifying that the most rapid advances ought to be broken now and then by a substantial downward correction in prices...
...downward spiral of the Wolf family is linked to the disintegration of Newark's most impoverished neighborhoods. Twenty years ago the city had 9,000 businesses and more than 200,000 jobs; today it has less than half that many businesses and 120,000 jobs. The population, which was more than 80% white and totaled 430,000 in 1950, has shrunk to 330,000, 65% black. Although thousands of hardworking black families remain, nearly a third of the residents depend on public assistance. In some neighborhoods more than three-quarters of the families are on the dole, many...
...began a news roundup with this: "Joe DiMaggio, baseball hall of famer, former husband of Marilyn Monroe, and also Mr. Coffee, had surgery today." Hero status, unless arrested by artistic device (the fade-out) or tragedy (an early death), decays. There is a trajectory to fame, and it points downward...