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...want to come back at my fifth reunion and see PBHA as a few top-down big sibling programs," says PBHA President Andrew J. Ehrlich...
...would rather search for information in a top-down fashion, first deciding on a category (like science), and then being provided with all the web's available options, try a web database like http://www.yahoo.com...
...stimulating strategy represents a top-down approach: providing essentially greater tax savings to the business sector with the expectation that, by extension, this subsequent improvement in its financial performance will-to use an overused and much-maligned cliche (please forgive me)-trickle down to American workers. There's nothing wrong with that idea. It's laudable goal and a positive approach to job-stimulation. Though there's significant debate within academic and political circles about the magnitude of the benefits from such an approach, there's no denying that there are positive repercussions for employment generated by improving the financial...
...author predicts a revolution from above, which he calls ``a top-down political evolution.'' He says, ``I believe problems in China will not be solved by the common people. Real political progress will come through the struggle within the elite.'' Although his preference is for a strong autocracy, it is ``highly possible,'' he says, ``that the party central committee will evolve into a parliamentary system...
Most disastrously for Clinton, his top-down, bureaucratic health-care proposal, while rightly aimed at one of the prime causes of middle-class anxiety, was easily made to look like the epitome of tax-and-spend liberal programs. That he and his wife had benefited from a chummy round of commodities trading and finagled a real-estate development deal didn't exactly make them appear to be champions of the hard-pressed middle class...