Word: downwardly
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...What she did had everything to do with her friendship and relationship with Randy Gomes,” he said. “When she saw his life spiraling downward she came to his aid…it was an effort to help Randy, initially. That’s what started this larcenous behavior...
Continuing a five-year downward trend in the number of transfer students at the College, Harvard did not accept any transfer applicants for spring 2003, cutting the total number of accepted transfers for 2002-03 by about 35 percent from last year, according to Transfer and Visiting Student Programs Coordinator Julia...
McGrath Lewis said the decision on how many transfer students to admit is made jointly by admissions, College and Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) officials long before students must decide if they will take time off from Harvard. Given the unpredictability of those numbers and the general downward trend in available beds, she said, “we try to be conservative” in how many transfer students to accept...
...sense of tremendous energy, like being on a locomotive track with a train coming at you." Something big comes through one wall at Genelle and Rosa and pushes them back. They fall, but Rosa recovers her footing. Genelle stays on the floor and starts to crawl downward. All this happens quickly, but there is time for them to separate. Rosa moves as if she is headed back up the stairs...
...other reason for my optimism is the big advantage we enjoy over the Anasazi and other past societies: the power of the media. When the Anasazi were collapsing in the U.S. Southwest, they had no idea that Easter Island was also on a downward spiral thousands of miles away, or that Mycenaean Greece had collapsed 2,400 years earlier. But we know from the media what is happening all around the world, and we know from archaeologists what happened in the past. We can learn from that understanding of remote places and times; the Anasazi didn't have that option...