Word: downwardly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...standing on the steps of a freshman dorm when he was "accosted by some five or six riot police holding 'Nigger sticks'...poised and raised for the downward swing," he says...
...crash gave way to a new boom, millions of investors have put a few thousand dollars each into the market, mostly by way of mutual funds. The great majority are getting their first bitter taste of a down market. If they panic and sell out, they could turn a downward spiral into a genuine crash...
Bill Clinton's Administration has proclaimed Asia "one of the most important regions for U.S. policy going into the 21st century." But recently U.S. Asia policy has taken a downward slide. Washington failed to persuade Japan to adopt tangible targets for opening specific segments of its market to more imports. Secretary of State Warren Christopher visited Beijing under a storm cloud of criticism from the Chinese, who accused the U.S. of interfering in their internal affairs by demanding human-rights improvements in order to continue granting China most-favored-nation trade status. And no sooner had Christopher returned home than...
What isn't discussed, however, is the downward pressure on grades exerted by grade-inflation paranoia. "The B+ is kind of caught between the crossfire of this," Lump says. "It's used in response to upward grade inflation, and it's also used in grade deflation. You're trying to deflate grades, so you give someone a B+. You know they're doing work that in another class might get them an A or an A-, [but] you can get away with that. Whereas if you give them, like, a B, they might seriously start to think they'd been...
...tree during the winter holidays. The background is pure black; the contrast in light and dark adds more whiteness and purity to the light, and thus more radiance. Yet it is difficult to overlook the man who carries this light. He stands in a relaxed position, head bent downward as if contemplating his costume of lights. His head directs attention towards the ground where the wires become one, flowing into a socket and then in to the corner of the photograph. The man in the picture is an instrument in the circuit; he provides the framework and carries the wires...