Kid is Duncan Pinderhughes, a wonk who doffs his bottom-down collars when a school administrator accidentally switches his identity with that of Blade Brown (Play), a stylish, incorrigible homeboy.
The fact is, as Kevin Drum notes, most systems are a mixture of top-down and bottom-up planning and competition.
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To facilitate links between local, regional and global levels, and harmonizing top-down and bottom-up approaches whilst taking into account social issues.
Meteorologists were once limited to a top-down or bottom-up look at clouds.
Spain and other distressed parts of the Eurozone require a two-pronged top-down and bottom-up approach which will assist in implementation of reform.
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Therefore, the ACE Program is a two-pronged, top-down, bottom-up strategy to connect regional early-stage products and companies to anchor customers and vice versa.
There used to be interplay between top-down media and bottom-up media, with one seeking inspiration or interpretation from the other.
Other common names for market timing include opportunistic investing, sector rotation, active asset allocation, top-down allocation, bottom-up allocation, global modeling, algorithmic positioning, defensive investing, and the list goes on.
Positioned to the right of the e-paper panel: a top button scrolls up, a smaller center button makes selections and the control on the bottom scrolls down -- through messages, menus or tracks while controlling music playback.
The first axis looks at how leaders exercise their power, from centralized and top-down to decentralized and bottom-up.
While these points are all important for your business to succeed, many leaders will often neglect these key factors (in particular their employees) by taking a more top-down, rather than bottom-up approach.
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Germany is groping for a mix of top-down direction-setting and bottom-up buy-in for its Energiewende to work.
Chevron, which posted earnings last week, saw its bottom-line results dragged down by weakness in its refining operations.
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But while top-down localism is failing, bottom-up localism is flourishing.
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The point is, in order to truly effect change, we need both top-down government-driven approaches, and bottom-up initiatives like crowdfund investing.
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Mainz drew 1-1 with fourth-bottom Wolfsburg, while Augsburg pushed Hoffenheim down to second from the foot of the table with a 2-1 win.
Instead, investors should take a more holistic approach, mixing bottom-up insights with top-down analysis.
These two mindsets reflect fundamentally polar methods of value generation: bottom-up creation versus top-down optimization.
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The seller took out a newspaper and glanced down at the bottom-right-hand corner.
The bottom-left 4 x 4 pads represent drum sounds (touch the slider to scroll up and down through even more sounds), while the bottom-right quarter of the grid serves as a clip-length control (press and hold the first pad, tap the fourth for a four-bar loop, etc.).
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The health care revolution will be both bottom-up (consumer led) and top-down (provider led).
The chasm between bottom-up state-building and the top-down negotiations in America or Egypt looks wider than ever.
The tooth needs to be drilled into, right down to the bottom of the nerve-carrying canal that runs through the root.
Professor Parry told BBC News that a key point of the new report, Assessing the Costs of Adaptation to Climate Change, was that it included "bottom-up" as well as "top-down" analyses.
Bottom-up campaign rhetoric just ran into the top-down Democratic establishment from Washington.
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The most profound changes, the most dynamic innovations, they don't happen from the top down -- they happen from the bottom up.
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"Bottom line: In-line quarter, but guidance revised down again, " he wrote.
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