Word: downwardly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...thinking began at the kitchen table. Because the real weekly wages of average Americans have been falling for nearly two decades, most families have staved off downward mobility through two costly measures: borrowing money and depending on two incomes. In the past year, many people have appraised the results of that strategy and decided they have paid a heavy price in their private life...
Pessimists, on the other hand, are ready to conclude that California is over the hill, descending a spiral of environmental, fiscal and social calamities. There is even a group of so-called declinists, like UCLA economist David Hensley, whose downward forecasting has been caricatured by others as a Blade Runner vision of economic stagnation, environmental plunder, surging crime and ethnic conflict...
...Colorado River begins high above the tree lines, amid the glaciers and snowpack on the western slope of the Rocky Mountains. Icy rivulets collect and drip into streams, trickling and then plunging downward. In the peaks of eastern Utah, where the Green River hurtles south from Wyoming to meet the Upper Colorado, the water starts getting serious. It wants to reach sea level -- in this case the Gulf of California, some thousand miles to the southwest -- and nothing natural has ever managed to stand in its way. In its slashing, headlong rush, the Colorado gouged out a pretty impressive piece...
...their bureaucratic allies won a 27 billion- ruble, or 37%, increase in the defense budget. At the same time, the government's budget deficit for the first three months of 1991 reached 26.9 billion rubles -- its highest quarterly loss ever -- and the country's total production fell 9%. The downward spiral is picking up speed, and some Western experts predict that the defense budget will be cut by a third over the next four years...
...choreography, as well as her performances, was fierce concentration and intensity. She went for the biggest, broadest gesture, the most vivid rage, the most startling image of love. What interested her was not the airiness and elevation of ballet. She made the earth her touchstone and reveled in the downward pull of gravity...