Word: downward
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...that Federline says his children are being harmed while in Spears' custody, the judge ignores the allegations and something happens to the kids, Grossman says. "Then everyone's going look to the judge and say why didn't you do something? We all knew she was on this downward spiral. We saw the pictures, we saw her performance on the VMAs, we all knew she was a terrible mother...
...personal shoppers was once a showcase for high-end American designers?a tradition Baker hopes to revive. But when Lord & Taylor was bought by Associated Dry Goods in the late '70s, it lost its edge as a fashion leader. May Co.'s 1986 acquisition only contributed to their downward spiral. "Lord & Taylor was the golden jewel in May's portfolio, but [the owners] didn't focus on it," says Christine Chen, a retail analyst at Needham and Co. Upscale vendors began to bow out. "When I took over [as CEO] in 2000, there was no difference between...
...played a major role in Florida's boom and bust. There are 40,000 condominium units being built right now in greater Miami, and consultant Lewis Goodkin estimates it will take five to seven years just to work through all that inventory. That's five to seven years of downward pressure on local housing prices, construction employment and the like. The great test of the coming months and years is whether the U.S. economy is strong enough to withstand that kind of pressure without buckling. Right now things aren't looking good, but this is an equation with too many...
...bottom line at many newspapers and left many journalists waiting for a pink slip. Gloom and doom about the future of journalism has become the norm and, in the minds of many, Murdoch’s acquisition of Dow Jones is but another turn in journalism’s downward spiral. While such fears are understandable, we believe that, in the long term, news sources that strive for objectivity (even if they occasionally fall short) will always be valued in American society more than blogs and pundits that spin facts but rarely report them. Murdoch’s acquisition...
...TIME: What keeps you awake at night? Meles: It has always been fear - fear that this great nation, which was great 1,000 years ago but then embarked on a downward spiral for 1,000 years, and reached its nadir when millions of people were starving and dying, may be on the verge of total collapse. Now it's not a fear of collapse, I believe we are beyond that. It's the fear that the light which is beginning to flicker, the light of a renewal, an Ethiopian renaissance, that this light might be dimmed by some bloody mistake...