Word: downwardly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Wait--customer service, you mean as in providing service to customers? Why should anyone expect that? Service people and their customers are becoming increasingly indignant with one another, and they're punishing one another's rudeness by becoming increasingly ruder back. What reason is there to suppose that the downward spiral in behavior will reverse direction...
...couldn't be in a better position to explode onto the hard rock market. First, they are spending most of this year touring with Nine Inch Nails (a.k.a. Trent Reznor), a show that has sold out across the country in anticipation of the first NIN live shows since The Downward Spiral...
...look now, but this could be the year we witness somewhat of a rebirth in American civic involvement. Bucking the current pervasive anti-census sentiment, the nation's minority communities have posted strong returns this spring, helping to reverse a decades-long downward trend in response rates. According to Thursday's New York Times, census officials report that close to 66 percent of Americans have returned their questionnaires - yes, including the much-maligned long form - putting the nation on track to reach a return rate of 67 percent, or two full points over 1990's final count. The remaining, refractory...
...span across the horns of close to 8 ft. (almost 3 m). There were buffalo-size antelopes with massive curving horns, carnivores that must have looked like saber-toothed lions, two distinct species of hippo and at least two types of elephant, one of which had tusks that protruded downward from the lower jaw. We may never know the full extent of this incredible mammalian diversity, but there were probably more than twice as many species a million years ago as there are today...
...Glancing downward at recent developments, she adds, "This definitely goes with what it's like to be a normal female. It's a nice change." Inevitably, it forced her to put on some new dancing shoes and spend some extra time in Victoria's Secret...