Word: downwardly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Harvard itself has brought down the self-help expectation twice since the 1998-99 academic year. This has dropped the average graduating debt of each class significantly: in 2000, the average senior left Harvard $15,000 in debt; in 2003, the number was $8,800. And Donahue expects the downward trend to continue with this year’s graduating class...
...prod our collective conscience and embody our idealism at its rawest and purest. Many of your parents belong to the generation that helped to lead the civil rights movement when they were no older than you are now. Two decades later, in 1992, young people reversed a 20-year downward trend in their age group’s voter turnout, successfully paving the way for eight years of promise and prosperity...
...preferred to call home instead. Tourists visiting the U.K. seem to be of a similar mind: Royal Mail statistics show the number of postcards mailed in Britain is falling by about a million each year-at a current 25 million, down from 30 million five years ago. The downward trend can be seen elsewhere. The Finland Post Corp. blames text messaging for the decline in the volume of postcards sent, while in Japan, there are plans to axe 80% of the country's postcard-vending machines. At this rate, postcards seem destined to go the way of the telex...
...fact a nutcase. Even though Harb heaps raises and promotions on her, she becomes increasingly paranoid and hostile, and finally she quits and sues Global for $150 million, claiming that she has been sexually harassed. The suit sends Harb's career at Global straight downward...
...Helping to reverse the downward trend of youth political participation is a necessity, and Harvard students involved with the IOP can make lasting contributions by inspiring college students across the country to enter the political arena...