Word: downwardly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Remember free-body diagrams? Here’s a problem for you. Object A, the ball, is about to hurtle downward at a 45-degree angle, and your job is to figure out whether or not it will make contact with Projectile A, a receiver shot out like a cannon from a slant-and-go route and accelerating with every step. Ignore Projectile B, the defender a few steps behind, for a moment. He doesn’t matter...
...soon entered an excruciating downward spiral of which many were unaware and others were powerless to stop. He became addicted to crystal methamphetamine, spent an increasing amount of time in casinos and strip joints, and endured several minor scrapes with the law. Each incident served to gradually erode his political credibility and widen the already considerable rift with his family...
Holt was sentenced to one year in federal prison, a term that was later shortened by four months due to time served for drug-related charges. Quite simply, Holt’s downward spiral was complete...
...percent in the number of black students enrolling at Harvard, the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education found. This year Yale, Brown, Princeton, Brown and Columbia all have admitted larger percentages of black students to their first-year classes than Harvard. As Harvard considers its strategies for combating this downward trend and competes with these other top-tier schools for students who will continue its commitment to diversity, it should look to emulate the strategies employed by other schools to attract minority candidates...
...gets worse for Minnie. Living in a house geared toward alcoholism and drug use, with a completely non-functioning mother, Minnie spirals rapidly downward, desperately searching for something to fill her emptiness. At first she indulges in meaningless sexual encounters with boys at school. Then, helplessly, you read her thoughts as she falls in love with a downtown lesbian, Tabatha, who introduces Minnie to heroin, and eventually pimps Minnie out to whomever will supply them with drugs. One atrocity follows another in this poor girl's life, where even the suicide prevention operator ends up abusing...