Word: downwardly
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...Bacanovic--then off on his own holiday--had just learned that ImClone co-founder Sam Waksal wanted to sell all the ImClone shares in his Merrill Lynch account, worth $4.9 million. Bacanovic called Stewart's assistant and left the message "Peter Bacanovic thinks ImClone is going to start trading downward...
...fell 1.5%, according to the U.S. Labor Department. That's the biggest drop since 1991, according to Jared Bernstein, an economist at the Economic Policy Institute, a research group based in Washington. Wage erosion partly explains why the Federal Reserve Board openly frets about the threat of deflation, a downward spiral in prices that can cripple an economy by making debt repayment more difficult and encouraging consumers to wait for even lower prices. Adding fuel to the deflation debate, the cost of goods to both consumers and manufacturers fell in April, officials reported last week...
...guard against a corrosive bout of deflation, like the one Japan has endured for nearly a decade. Wage pressures and deflation "obviously go together," says Laurence Meyer, an economist and a former member of the Fed's board of governors. "When there is slackness in the economy, it puts downward pressure on wages that then passes through to the price of goods and services...
President Bush's proposed solution is a package of tax cuts mainly for upper-income Americans. The current "recession mentality," he argues, has led to extensive corporate cost cutting and downward wage pressures that will abate as the economy revives. "When demand goes up, wages will follow," Bush says. No doubt faster growth, when it comes, will help boost employment and stabilize pay. But it is unlikely that wages will rebound quickly. The world has changed. The spread of technology and skills, of Internet communication and cheap shipping, means that today more U.S. firms must compete against foreign rivals that...
...babies aren't doing strict yoga poses. It's difficult enough for adults to master such exotic positions as the Downward-Facing Dog, let alone kids who are still learning to roll over or sit up. Instead they are led through yoga-influenced stimulation exercises, massage, games and a variety of rocking and balancing exercises, accompanied by their moms, who get into postpartum shape by doing more traditional poses. According to DeAnsin Goodson Parker, a child psychologist and author of Yoga Baby, parent-child yoga classes provide special "relating time" between child and parent. Yoga also stimulates the immune...