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...After that seven-game winning streak, we felt that we were really on a roll," senior forward Mike Gilmore said. "[After the Brown loss,] I thought at the time that it would help us, but it put us in a downward spiral...
...definitely don't want to be swept by anyone," Gilmore added. "That was a game we felt we should have won and that loss sort of sent us on a downward spiral...
...Over the past several years, we have managed to maintain a monotonic downward trend in tuition rate increases, even though these increases continue to be higher than those in the consumer price index or in median family income," Knowles wrote...
...reassuring. Though the Johnston facility has destroyed 3% of the nation's stockpile since coming on line in 1990, the effort has been plagued by mishaps. Conveyor belts, chutes and gates have jammed; a rocket exploded inside the incinerator; estimates of the incinerator's efficiency have been revised downward as the Army discovered that it can destroy only seven M-55 rockets an hour rather than the anticipated...
...blacks were perpetual strike breakers who threatened to snatch up semi-skilled and skilled positions. In order to ensure themselves employment as artisans and craftsmen, the Irish organized boycotts of any firm that hired or trained blacks, thereby effectively excluding them from the trade sector and relegating them, ever downward, to more menial jobs. What prosperity New England blacks achieved between 1790 and 1830 was lost to Irish hostility, and the trend towards assimilation reversed...