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Word: downwardly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...collected by the FBI from 16,000 state and local police agencies, the rate of all crimes dropped 4% from 1991 to 1992 and an additional 3.1% from 1992 to 1993. The violent-crime rate fell 1.5% from 1992 to 1993, and preliminary estimates by the FBI show that downward trend continuing into the first half...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: SAFER STREETS, YET GREATER FEAR | 1/30/1995 | See Source »

...portions of a plannedexhibit featuring the Enola Gay, the B-29 that dropped the atom bomb on Hiroshima, in a bow to pressure from outraged WWII veterans groups and their supporters in Congress. "We made an error," said Smithsonian Secretary Michael Heyman. The 100,000 square-foot exhibit revised downward the official estimate of the number of American lives saved by the 1945 bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to 63,000, from several hundred thousand. In addition, it focused on pictures and narrative about the Japanese who suffered and died. Rep. Peter Blute (R-Mass.), one of the congressional critics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ENOLA GAY . . . SMITHSONIAN FLINCHES | 1/30/1995 | See Source »

...near 20%. This is commonly interpreted as a judgment against the growing power of special-interest lobbyists. But it could also be a reaction against the increasingly abject spinelessness of politicians, a byproduct of the very same trend. Indeed, the one clear exception to the number's downward drift are the Reagan years. Aaron says, "Even Democrats like me, who believed Ronald Reagan was a malign force, respected him, because, damn it, there were things he really stood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hyperdemocracy | 1/23/1995 | See Source »

After his Finance Minister said publicly just 10 days earlier that the currency would not be devalued, Zedillo used the occasion of a potential December uprising in Chiapas first to nudge the peso downward, then abruptly to let it float against the dollar. Plummet is what it did instead. In a world where international investment money can cross borders with a few taps on a computer keyboard, a thunder of key taps arose from the offices of stunned investment-fund managers in New York City and other financial centers. As they swiftly dumped Mexican securities, the peso went into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Plunger: the Peso Heads South | 1/9/1995 | See Source »

...billion in credits from the U.S. and < Canada. That's in addition to a $6 billion currency swap fund that the U.S. already had in place to bolster Mexico in any currency crunch. News of that deal helped the peso move back upward and halted the accompanying downward swoop of the Mexican stock market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Plunger: the Peso Heads South | 1/9/1995 | See Source »

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