Word: downwardly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Knowles went so far a say that "the downward trajectory of the annual deficit...shows that we are driving towards a balanced budget within a year...
...continue to view our present position withcautious optimism," Knowles wrote. "The optimismderives from the downward trajectory of the annualdeficit...
...Roosevelt's critics say Weld actually reversed the downward trend of the economy he inherited...
...Fernando Valley and making sure her mother is all right. As Stillman crosses her bedroom, she thinks, this must have been a big one. Nearly everything in the apartment is on the floor. Then she hears a crack, and her dining area seems to list to the left and downward. "I felt a sensation of falling," she reports later. She is falling -- 10 ft. -- and so is her apartment. And the building's entire second and third floors. "But until I actually saw what was on the outside," she says, "I really was not aware that it had totally crushed...
Ruskin would not, however, have approved of Freud's nudes, any more than some feminists do today. These figures, splayed under the inquisitorial electric light and the downward gaze of the artist, are the mainstay of his work, and the fierceness with which they reject the softening conventions of the "studio nude" has provoked a bumper crop of balderdash about Freud's supposed misogyny and sexism. (Freud's own riposte, in a recent interview, was terse: "I think the idea of misogyny is a stimulant to feminists, and it's rather like anti-Semites looking for Jewish noses everywhere...