Word: downwardly
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...ball] took a kind of downward spin hop at the last minute,” Vance said. “I thought I had it in my glove but it wasn’t there...
...awaits. The great Greg Louganis, a double gold medalist at Los Angeles, completely butchers a couple of dives in the 10-meter platform prelims. He has explained, in his bashful, self-effacing way, that he is not really training. Headshaking here; sad to see a fine athlete on the downward slide. Uh-huh. But when the diving is finished a couple of days later, guess which bashful, self-effacing phenomenon has another two golds? The real surprise is that Michele Mitchell also wins two. She won the silver last summer in the 10 meter platform, and owns that event...
...economy is trudging along at a slow 3% annual growth rate, investors see plenty of reasons for putting their money on the line. They feel particularly buoyed by declining interest rates. Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker hinted last month that the central bank will continue to apply downward pressure on rates in order to keep the economy moving. Volcker seemed to confirm that policy last week, when he stated that the Fed's open-market committee will keep a relatively loose rein on the money supply, a strategy that should keep plenty of cash available for loans to businesses...
...Wall Street trader could make a killing if he got advance notice of the Commerce Department's quarterly estimate of the country's economic growth. On the day it is released, that statistic can send the financial markets into a sharp upward or downward spurt. Thus Government officials became alarmed last July and then again in September when an accurate GNP estimate was circulating among traders the day before its official release. In an effort to find the source of the leak, the Commerce Department has called in the FBI, which last week was giving voluntary lie-detector tests...
...downward drift in part reflects diminished confidence in the U.S. economy. Some currency traders have dumped dollars because they believe the recovery is coming to an end. The concern was reinforced last week when new Commerce Department figures showed that the economy in the second quarter grew at a 1.7% annual rate. That was well below the earlier estimate...