Word: downward
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...American Automobile Association predicted that 37.2 million Americans would travel over the weekend, reversing a downward trend since 36.8 million left their homes for the holiday...
...University President Lawrence H. Summers and Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby, expressing their concerns about the precipitous slide in tenure offers. This fall, 73 female senior faculty members agreed to sign a statement urging the administration “to assign its highest priority to reversing the downward trend of the past three years in FAS senior offers to women.” Summers and Kirby agreed to meet with 50 female senior faculty members on October 6 in the Barker Center. Both expressed concern about the drop in offers, but many women present weren?...
...Harvard T stop followed this downward trend. The number of incidents of assault, larceny, theft and robbery reported at the Harvard station declined from 14 in 2003 to eight this year...
...current special concentrators represent a downward trend from the average of 30 to 40 students Oettinger saw during his tenure, he says. And as the College’s ongoing curricular review encourages increase flexibility within and across existing departments, he says the number may drop even further—though “having an escape hatch for students is not a bad idea...
...away? Not likely. In the short term, there is money to be made. And by mere virtue of their size, giants like Mittal should also be well-placed to ride out the industry's next dip. The new group will have "enough economies of scale to ride out the downward part of the cycle," says Daswani. "No-one sits pretty in a downturn. But it's the small and medium-sized companies who get squeezed first." Maybe so, but survival in an industry as tough and turbulent as this one takes nerves of steel...