Word: downwardly
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Emerson was the rhapsodist of beginnings. In the disintegration of Puritanism, he cut loose from the granite Thou Shalt Nots of his forebears, seven generations of New England clergy. The 20th century has apocalyptic fantasies about the end of things. The trajectory of our thoughts tends to be downward. We are transfixed by Auschwitz and Hiroshima and Cambodia and Bangladesh and lesser barbarisms. The 20th century has rarely felt transcendental. What does Emerson's optimism have to say to such a civilization...
...number of factors helped keep casualties low. The fires occurred at an hour when people were waking up and when daylight offered visibility. Also, the blaze burned from the roofs downward, affording precious extra seconds for people to escape. Perhaps most important was the selfless heroism of residents who pounded on the doors of sleeping neighbors before fleeing. One additional stroke of luck: the winds subsided at midmorning, giving fire fighters a chance to contain the advancing flames...
Fortunately, Columbia's computers knew where they were. After streaking across Arizona and New Mexico, the delta-winged craft emerged right on target at the sprawling, mountain-rimmed missile testing grounds. Columbia then made a wide right turn, aligned itself with one of the desert runways and plunged downward at breathtaking speed, dropping at an angle seven times steeper than that of a commercial jet. At 4,000 ft., its fall was accelerated by a fluke wind that caused the speed brakes in the shuttle's rudder to retreat automatically. Finally, only 143 ft. off the ground, Lousma...
Inventory liquidations by businessmen are simply accelerating the downward price pressure. The most striking examples, of course, are in the auto industry, which is now offering rebates of up to $2,000 on some cars to help move the vehicles off dealer lots. But businessmen of all sorts have begun pruning stocks. Stevan Buxbaum, who runs a Los Angeles discount clothing store called Ideal Fashions, reports that manufacturers are calling him from as far away as New York City and offering clothes at prices below wholesale just to move the garments out of their plants...
...arranged in orderly columns. The new system makes it easy to pick out what is relevant and skip what is not. A new table of contents on the inside cover gives an overview of the task ahead. And then the sequence starts: Step 1, Step 2, in an easy downward flow, until at Step 8, which is the bottom line, "Refund or tax payment...