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...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...
...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...
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...