Word: downwardly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...April dip was for fools. Were you one of them? If so, you had plenty of company. For most of a decade, investors have enriched themselves by plowing money into the market every time it stumbled. Whatever the downward catalyst, from Yeltsin's coup to the Asian flu, prices routinely rebounded...
...scandal that clung to the White House in the wake of the Lewinsky debacle, producers at NBC were uncertain that the nation would swallow Martin Sheen's squeaky-clean President Barlet. All sorts of polls have shown that the average American's faith in government has slid steadily downward since Watergate. Was it possible that a public so disillusioned with its leaders could accept the portrait of a politician with a magnetic personality, a benevolent heart, and a philosophy of being "for the people" who is neither a stooge nor a swindler...
Members of the Harvard community reacted with shock and sadness at yesterday's downward turn of events...
Conversely, Herbert Hoover was a gleamingly successful citizen right up until the fall of 1929, when his reputation followed the economy downward in a disastrous spiral. And so on. The presidency retains a mystique of transformation. The office is still a variation on the American theme of new beginnings. Americans might actually find it attractive if George W. Bush's only accomplishment by age 40 had been to quit drinking...
Conversely, Herbert Hoover was a gleamingly successful citizen right up until the fall of 1929, when his reputation followed the economy downward in a disastrous spiral...