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Dates: during 2000-2009
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MAKING THE TOWER LEAN BACK In recent decades, forces pulling the tower askew began to compound each other. Soil continued to give way underneath, while stress increased on the stones on the downward side at the base of the second level. A panel studied several ideas before selecting a low-tech but effective solution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tipping The Balance | 6/25/2001 | See Source »

...attempt to straighten the tower, builders try using thicker stones on the downward side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tipping The Balance | 6/25/2001 | See Source »

...that could prove to be a dangerous game since jobless workers are hardly big spenders. "If you really scare consumers," Dudley says, "then you have this whole downward dynamic of job losses leading to lower consumption leading to more job losses." Concurs Shepherdson: "The next stage of getting consumer confidence substantially higher is going to be the struggle against the head wind of rising unemployment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forecast: Assessing Recession | 6/25/2001 | See Source »

Before Rudenstine’s arrival, the University bid for 52 acres in Allston under a different name. The actual deal went through under his tenure, and when word leaked out that the buyer was Harvard, town-gown relations, already tenuous, spiraled downward. Rudenstine, in retrospect, readily admits his mistake...

Author: By Catherine E. Shoichet, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Last Word on Neil Rudenstine | 6/7/2001 | See Source »

...clear that the downward spiral of these animals was after the arrival of humans," said Linda Ayliffe of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, one of the researchers on the project...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Wooly Whodunit — Man Killed the Mammoth | 6/7/2001 | See Source »

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