Word: upward
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...world. Even with the U.S. well into its recovery, the slump in Japan and Europe has dragged down the global economy, hurting demand for raw materials and other export goods from developing countries. But last month the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (O.E.C.D.) reported that it was revising upward its 1994 growth estimates for Germany, the powerhouse of the European economic engine, from 0.8% annually to 1.8%. The organization now predicts the Japanese economy will expand 0.8% in 1994 -- last year it grew 0.1% -- and the European Union 1.9%, vs. a drop of 0.3% in 1993. In a welcome...
...President Jack R. Meyer, the company'sthird highest paid officer, saw his pay continueon an upward spiral, as it rose 30 percent from...
...taxes. Corporations and the very rich have seen their taxes decline about a third in the past few decades, while those of us in the middle class now pay 329% more than we did 20 years ago, good-natured chumps that we are. The result is a quiet, ongoing upward redistribution of wealth from those who live from paycheck to paycheck to those who think of wages, if they ever do, as pesky "labor costs" they pay to the help...
...levels. But even the deficit can be a boon if you're in the filly-raising class. The interest payments, which take up about 15% of the federal budget, go to the owners of Treasury bonds, meaning mainly the monied, and thus serve as one more conduit for the upward flow of wealth...
What isn't discussed, however, is the downward pressure on grades exerted by grade-inflation paranoia. "The B+ is kind of caught between the crossfire of this," Lump says. "It's used in response to upward grade inflation, and it's also used in grade deflation. You're trying to deflate grades, so you give someone a B+. You know they're doing work that in another class might get them an A or an A-, [but] you can get away with that. Whereas if you give them, like, a B, they might seriously start to think they'd been...