Word: downward
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...longer-term question that is tormenting the 16 euro-zone nations: Could the Greek crisis be the beginning of the end for the common currency, just eight years after its first notes and coins were issued? Might the doubts and pressures that are driving the euro's value downward lead to the eventual implosion of Europe's most concrete achievement thus...
...ARMs were written in California, Florida, Arizona and Nevada, with the vast majority of those in California. In that way, the option-ARM problem is localized. People living in Phoenix, Las Vegas and California's Inland Empire, which have high concentrations of option ARMs, can expect to see renewed downward pressure on home prices. But the trend won't spread nationally...
...sanctuaries inside Pakistan's tribal territories - it should not falter in trying to prop up the country's civil institutions. Otherwise, she says, the root causes of illiteracy and poverty that have given rise to militancy in the country will never be tackled, and Pakistan will remain in its downward spiral...
...economic malaise of the E.U. and Japan has central bankers and bondholders worried. But it has currency speculators and arbitragers licking their lips at the prospect of riding the euro and yen on their downward slide, while at the same time making fat profits on high-yield investments and rising currencies in emerging markets...
...first excerpt of TIME contributing editor Jim Frederick's new book, Black Hearts: One Platoon's Descent into Madness in Iraq's Triangle of Death, demonstrated Steven Green's downward psychological spiral. The second and final excerpt highlights how Green and his co-conspirators masterminded their crime...