Word: downwardly
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After the ambassadorial fiasco, Bill turned to the metier of novelist. His utterly atrocious "mystery," Mackerel By Moonlight, was greeted by the media as perhaps the worst book written in the Western World. Bill's career looked to be on a downward slippery slope, but he valiantly tried to salvage his reputation by returning to his background in law and purchasing an apartment in New York City to be close to all the action. Sadly, recent Boston Globe articles reported the demise of Weld's marriage with his quiet, cerebral wife--a woman notoriously shy of government functions and engrossed...
...Diego's murder rate, on the other hand, is down almost 28% this year. Department spokesman Dave Cohen proudly attributes the decrease to "the partnership between the community and the police." And over the past decade, San Diego has indeed mirrored the national downward trend. But in 1999 San Diego's murder rate increased 36% over the previous year, proving how fickle these statistics...
...Johnson, editorial director of Vanguarde, which in April became joint owner of Emerge in a complex deal with BET Holdings II Inc.: "From a business standpoint, suspending publication was an easy call. As a new company, we simply could not afford to carry a magazine that was trending downward like that...
...Throughout his tenure, Schlesinger pushed for a larger Department of Defense budget and military action in Southeast Asia in order to reverse the downward trend in U.S. military strength and maintain a force that was at least equivalent to that of the Soviet Union...
...investors, tech stocks have always been wobbly, with their stratospheric price-to-earnings ratios and fluid business plans; now they're starting to careen, mostly downward, with regularity, and other bets are only getting better. "The higher interest rates go, the more lucrative bonds and T-bills are," says Baumohl. "When 30-year bond yields get over 7 percent, with absolutely no risk, money gets shifted out of the techs and put elsewhere." And then there are the fundamentals, which were never the tech sector's strong suit anyway. "When rates go up, companies don't have as much money...