Word: downwardly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...just three seats in Queensland compared with 11 in the previous election. Using Australia's preferential voting system to best effect, One Nation played a key part in humiliating the Liberal-National coalition in the Queensland and Western Australia elections. True, John Howard's coalition has been on a downward spiral federally, but divisions in the opposition ranks made Labor's win more emphatic. Hanson helped deliver victory to the Labor Party in Queensland by a stunning margin. One Nation won a few seats in depressed, conservative rural areas that had lost faith in the National Party but were...
...economic reports with which Greenspan stuffs his briefcase on FOMC Tuesdays continue to indicate an economy whose bottom-scraping is behind it. Unemployment is still near record lows, and still inching downward; home sales and mortgage refinancing (Americans' other source of net worth) are brisk. Consumer confidence and retail sales - the shopping factor that will sustain this economy or starve it - seem to have come to the brink and pulled up short...
Wall Street is definitely pouting. After cramming a whole lot of selling into less than two post-Fed hours, investors were at it again the day after, pushing the indexes steadily downward into Wednesday afternoon. With the markets getting the message that Alan Greenspan is not anxious to ride to their rescue, whither Wall Street now? TIME Wall Street columnist Dan Kadlec gives voice to the bears' lament...
...problem wasn't unique to Matchbid. Independent exchanges in the U.S. - models for Matchbid's business - began floundering. Internet analysts revised their predictions downward for the entire business-to-business market...
...white n-----" dodge was an effort to apply hilariously moronic last-minute reverse English to realign oneself with the Quality. The speaker sniffed in two downward directions at once - the direction of race (where, you unnerstan', the black n------- are to be found) and the direction of class (it's pretty foxy to condescend to white trash when you are white trash yourself: Throws 'em off the track...