Word: downward
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...frenzy, the thief yanked the frame downward to snap the wires that held it. Mary Vassiliou, a tourist from New Jersey who witnessed the robbery, told TIME, "It looked like he was crazy. He was banging it against the wall. Then he got it off the wall, and he was banging it on the floor." Witnesses say the same man next went after The Scream, which he ripped in the same brutal way from the partition--not even a solid wall--it was hung on. "They dragged them and twisted them and did all sorts of things," says museum director...
...black “fcuk you, I’m voting” t-shirt, straw hat nesting comfortably atop his head and megaphone slung under his arm, production assistant James L. Granger ’05 explained the importance of the youth vote, citing the “downward spiral of political engagement” as one reason to motivate youth involvement...
...study, published in the spring 2004 issue of the Journal of Economic Perspectives, found that recent numbers point to a downward shift in the proportion of women retaining their own surnames—breaking a three-decade-long trend in which that proportion had risen...
...study also suggested that “a general shift to more conservative social values” contributed to the downward trend...
...College graduates, 33.4 percent earned magna honors this month. But previous years have reflected a downward trend. While 36.2 percent of the Class of 2001 boasted the second-highest honors recommendation, the figure dropped to 34.4 percent the following year. The Class of 2003 had 30.5 percent of its graduates come away with magna honors...