Word: downwardly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...professor resembles the broken-spirited figures in anticommunist plays by Pinter or Havel, ready to comply with anything just to end the humiliation and pain. His ugly spiral downward is at once outlandish and entirely plausible, and it had this audience member virtually leaping out of his chair in fury at the injustice and unreason. Whatever the bumps -- and there are a few in Mamet's staging of his text -- the power to incense, like that to sadden or amuse, is reason enough to cheer for the future of the theater...
...even with such excesses, current ideas for reform go too far. The Bush administration, charging that American society has become too litigious (this in spit of a downward swing in litigation since 1985), has called for a drastic overhaul of the civil justice system...
Workers at computer stations may position their hands over the keyboard with the sensitive wrist cocked upward or downward, compressing the tendons, ligaments and nerves that run through its narrow confines. People working with typewriters are more likely to hold their hands suspended straight forward, the wrists flat. Old-style typewriter keys also generally have a certain amount of spring, while computer keys often strike against a hard, unforgiving base. "These simple things sound trivial, but they are not when you're locked into one position, working all day long," says Marvin Dainoff, director of the Center for Ergonomic Research...
...ultimate check on over-population. According to World Bank projections, sub-Saharan Africa's population will rise from 548 million today to 2.9 billion by the year 2050. The huge increase in mouths to be fed threatens to swamp any foreseeable economic growth and force living standards ever downward...
...since January, staged a brief comeback Thursday. They were encouraged by the launching of the new Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission, Japan's first regulatory agency for stock exchanges, and the news that Japanese Premier Kiichi Miyazawa would convene a special Cabinet session. The Nikkei resumed its steep downward slide Friday, however, after Finance Minister Tsutomu Hata said it would be difficult to bolster the market. Business leaders have urged the government to take steps to prop up the market. Miyazawa, however, is banking on a supplementary budget to stimulate the economy, but few economists believe the government alone...