Word: downwardly
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...concept of pre-emptive strikes is very scary. If the U.S. says it will attack first, what would stop others from doing the same to us? This could result in a downward spiral to death and destruction. This Bush doctrine, like some of his others (withdrawing from the ABM Treaty, development of a space-based missile-defense shield), will make the world not a safer place but a more dangerous one. DAVID ATWOOD Houston...
...Sources say her assistant has signed an affidavit revealing that Bacanovic, who was also Stewart's broker, called Stewart's office between 10 a.m. and 11 a.m. on Dec. 27, shortly after Aliza's shares were dumped, and left a message that "ImClone is going to start trading downward." Stewart called Bacanovic's office at 1:30 p.m. Her stock was sold 10 minutes later, sources say. Stewart has denied that she engaged in any improper trading...
...revealed by life's more typical crises: losing a job, having an annoying neighbor or flirting with someone you shouldn't. The best of the four tales in this collection, "Hawaiian Getaway," features Hillary Chan, a twenty-something child of Asian immigrants who loses her job and starts a downward spiral of guilt and self-loathing. Driven to distraction by a demanding, critical mother and a patronizing, "successful" younger sister, she begins making increasingly nasty prank calls to the payphone outside her window. Strangely, one of these results in a date with a decent guy. Will she see him again...
...word and sits down. Moments later, one of the men onstage stands up, removes his jacket and walks forward. His legs positioned in a kendo stance, he whisks out a golden fan emblazoned with the red circle of the Japanese flag. He briskly waves the fan in deliberate downward strokes as a militaristic march plays in the background. The audience claps along, one solid clap every three seconds, while they sing in unison...
Instead, last fall Andersen's audit team worked frantically (to no avail) to find legal accounting tricks so that Enron wouldn't have to restate its earnings downward by $591 million and post a $1 billion loss. Prosecutors allege that around the same time, Andersen shredded trunkloads of documents it knew might help the Securities and Exchange Commission investigate Enron's demise...