Word: downwardly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...debacle broke new ground in the erosion of Clinton's popularity. He suffered simultaneous public mockery of both his competence (one headline writer dubbed him "Bumblin' Bill") and his conviction ("President Jell- O"). His downward spiral in popularity and his shift in positions are creating a sense of public vertigo. More than ever, Americans regard their new President with two nagging questions: Is he up to the job? and What does he stand for? Clinton must know that if he does not answer those questions soon, he may never be able to. One longtime friend who spoke with the President...
...stock that is suddenly on its way down. I decide to sell 10 shares short at 38 3/4; J.P. Morgan is on the other side of the trade. Now I have to buy the shares in order to deliver them to Morgan, hopefully at a lower price. But the downward wave I thought I was surfing on turns out to be little more than a splash in a puddle. Amgen edges up to 39 in most marketmakers' quotes! If it climbs higher, I'm really in trouble. "Cut your loss! Cut your loss!" shouts Houtkin, so I ask the clerk...
...Oppenheimer, senior scientist with the Environmental Defense Fund, urged the Administration to set the U.S. on a course of action that would keep emissions below 1990 levels well beyond the year 2000. That could be the real test of the President's commitment. "Is he going to keep the downward trend going?" asks Oppenheimer. "Or is he going to tweak emissions for seven years and then let them...
...elderly are quick -- and correct -- to denounce the low savings rate among the young. But the growing reliance on subsidies from older generations is more a function of despair than greed, reflecting the downward mobility of millions of young families. "Inheritance looms larger by default," says Phillip Longman, author of Born to Pay: The New Politics of Aging in America. "Increasingly, the only way for the young middle class to stay in the middle class is to inherit the trappings...
Obviously there are still deep underlying trends, indicative of seismic- scale cultural drift. Assisted suicide, for example. Abandoning the elderly in their wheelchairs. Intergenerational downward mobility. But these are not the kind of things one would want to see spread around the world like Hula Hoops, stamped MADE IN THE U.S.A. The same goes for the cannibalism trend as promoted by Anthony Hopkins, not to mention Studs-like game shows, in which attractive young people make witty remarks about body parts...