Word: downwardly
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...whole point of Yoga may be to check your ego at the door, but that doesn't mean you can't assume Downward Dog with style. As yoga has grown in popularity in the U.S. over the past several years--15 million Americans practiced it in 2003, according to a Harris Interactive poll published by Yoga Journal--so too has the availability of the requisite mats, blocks and stretchy clothing...
Plate begins to melt as it???s driven downward...
...lowering of standards to foster greater diversity, but simply an extension of outreach efforts in the highly subjective area of determining the most promising scholars in academia. We are pleased that these key administrators do seem to understand the gravity of the problem. Kirby agreed recently that the downward trend is “unacceptable” and a “matter of some emergency.” And Summers has assured that “we have already matched last year’s rather sorry total” of female hires...
...this language and this sentiment exist in college? Of course it does, but it’s not new, and it’s not everything. But Wolfe seems to think it is new, or at least, that the language has changed so dramatically as to signal a serious downward departure from the “decent” sexual undercurrents of yesteryear’s undergraduates. Yet even if it had, the pervasiveness of sex in Charlotte Simmons eclipses nearly all else—academic pursuits in a supposed elite institution, genuine friendships, even romantic relationships...
...currently crowded with tired Chemistry concentrators and neurotic Starbucks junkies just leaving the garage with their Venti Triple Soy Lattes. Instead of delicate tuxedo shirts and elegant stilettos, there are North Face jackets, jeans and dirtied sneakers. In place of swinging arms and pouty lips, tense shoulders and downward stares make the criss-crossing runways from Boylston to Holworthy sloppy and out of sync...