Word: downwardly
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...also predicted the Cambridge turnout for the general election to be 65-70 percent—a figure up from recent elections but part of a long-term downward trend in voter participation in the city...
...Insurers became the biggest investors in equity markets, alongside banks, holding more than 20% of the total European capitalization. Topping the list is Austria, whose insurers owned more than 50% of its domestic equity market in 2000. With markets falling to 1997 levels, insurers are now caught in a downward spiral: the more equity prices fall, the more the value of their capital drops, creating intense pressure to sell. But unloading stocks simply makes prices fall, thus further depleting insurers' capital base. The alternative is to beg shareholders for fresh capital - as many insurers have been forced...
...securities, harmonize regulation and allow customers to buy shares directly from investment banks. The Good, The Bad, The Ugly The International Monetary Fund still believes the global economy is recovering, but it added to the gloom shaking markets when it released its World Economic Outlook with a host of downward revisions for expected economic growth. The IMF lowered its prediction for global growth in 2003 from 4% to 3.7%, cut the E.U.'s forecast increase from 2.9% to 2.3% and slashed the U.S. outlook nearly a point, to 2.6%. A Brand That Won't Quit At least there's still...
...neglected pinky toes had, as Teddy predicted, been rendered gimpy and disfigured from years spent under the yoke of New Balances. Pointing to his own feet, Teddy illustrated the sort of vigorous, proud and gloriously unmarred pinky toes that could flourish in the absence of shoes. I again peered downward in an effort to survey the damage wrought by 20 years of intense shoe dependency and I found only two withered stubs masquerading as pinky toes. They looked less like natural appendages and more like unwanted souvenirs from a childhood spent living far too close to a radioactive dump...
Some parents in Aspen, Colo., are hopping mad that their kids may learn Downward-Facing Dog in school. At a packed school-board meeting last week, Steve Woodrow, a Baptist minister and parent of two students at Aspen Elementary School, challenged the school's plan to teach yoga this fall on the grounds that instruction in the ancient practice of breathing and stretching introduces religion into the classroom and thus is unconstitutional. School officials planned to launch a program called Yoga Ed, already used in public schools in Los Angeles, Seattle and Columbus, Ohio, in hopes that it would help...