Word: downwardly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...grand scale, that's not so bad. A do-nothing Congress won't blow the budget surplus, leaving it for debt repayment, which would put downward pressure on interest rates and provide a backdoor tax cut. That's the gridlock benefit you hear so much about from Wall Street. But it's a mistake to think nothing will happen, especially if Bush prevails. He ran on the promise of a broad tax cut. "He has to deliver something," says political analyst Andy Laperriere at ISI Group...
...modest conclusion of the novel ("This book is dedicated to humanity"), Houellebecq constantly reminds his reader that he has bigger fish to fry than individual characters. Set in the more enlightened near future, The Elementary Particles aims for no less than a complete mapping-out of Western society's downward trajectory in the second half of the 20th century...
Becoming president should be a transformation upward - the start of the honeymoon. What we see now are two transformations downward - not only no honeymoon, but the vicious opposite of romance of any kind. E-mail flies around the Web to the effect that 1) George W. Bush is infinitely stupider than we had ever thought, or 2) Al Gore is a cheating weasel, weirder than anyone suspected during the campaign. On the radio, Don Imus foams at the mouth impartially, ranting about both...
...Look at the chart - this has been on the horizon for a while. From the March peak of 5132 to Friday's close of 3029, the general direction of the NASDAQ graph - what's called the trend line - is a consistent downward slope. It's tested its low of 3026 several times, in May, in October, and last week, and, as technical analysts like to say, "there's no such thing as a quadruple bottom." When the trend line hits the floor, the floor gives way. Then the floor turns into the ceiling...
...motion by a disappointing earnings report from Canadian communications firm Nortel, released after the bell Tuesday, the index went vertical at the bell Wednesday and staggered downward until closing time. And the day's big losers - Nortel, JDS Uniphase, Sycamore Networks and Ciena, which all dropped 20 percent or more - had one thing in common. Two words, Ben: Fiber optics...