Word: downwardly
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...writing to express our displeasure with the statement concerning La Vida at Harvard in the Crimson Wisdom section of your Feb. 14 issue. To say the least, it is as of yet uncertain what exactly was intended by the downward arrow and the sentiment “that’s just loco,” but there is no question regarding its offensive nature. The explanations we have been given are not up to par, and do not absolve the Crimson of guilt in this error. This statement ridicules the Latino community’s efforts to gain personal...
...been a smashing success: in the low-margin world of grocery retailing, where many chains earn a net return of just 1%, Aldi nets as much as 7%. The Albrecht brothers are now among the richest people in Germany. When the euro was introduced, Aldi rounded its prices downward, while many others rounded up. If it comes down to a choice between Germany's paternalistic leaders and Aldi's prices, Aachen's shoppers have no doubt which side they support. "I'm fed up with all these politicians," says a middle-aged woman who gives her name as Renate, making...
...both the SPD and the CDU explicitly ruled out such an arrangement after last September's parliamentary elections. But the stakes are too high to reject cooperation now. Unless Germany reforms its economy, the country risks falling into a Japanese-style slump of little or no growth and a downward spiral of deflation. An early casualty of this forced coalition will be Schröder's proposed new taxes - including increased levies on company cars and dog food - designed to help close an j18 billion budget deficit. "Most of these taxes are now dead," says Holger Schmieding, European economist...
Students eagerly logging on to check their fall semester grades may be disappointed if a historic downward trend in grade point averages revealed last week has continued into this academic year...
...invasion of Afghanistan resulted in the capture of a country but not bin Laden. Yet while al-Qaeda may be weakened, it's more elusive. The organization has dispersed, decentralized and delegated decisionmaking downward. Its leaders have shown immense skill in adapting to the more difficult working environment, relying on a looser network with more local initiative. Small-scale attacks on unprotected targets with simple weapons don't need the direct approval of superiors. Ideas have been implanted among Islamists that can be worked into plans by independent cells and free-lance jihadists...