So the bottom-fishers are out in force -- checking their gear, if not yet actually casting.
But like an alcoholic who hits rock-bottom and reaches out for help, the latest news suggests that Nortel (nyse: NT - news - people ) is finally facing up to its problems.
The history of this country has been a middle class-out economics, a bottom-up economics.
Merck 's (nyse: MRK - news - people ) Raymond Gilmartin , UAL 's (nyse: UAL - news - people ) Glenn Tilton , Bristol-Myers Squibb 's (nyse: BMY - news - people ) Peter Dolan and Hewlett-Packard 's (nyse: HPQ - news - people ) Carly Fiorina round out the bottom-dwellers with scores in the low teens.
And then, two weeks later -- two weeks after I spoke here -- the bottom fell out of the economy.
Waze CEO Noam Bardin says that while his team was thinking bottom-up, figuring out how to sell ads against its traffic content, Meeker was thinking top-down, advising him to imagine how Waze can steal dollars from the multibillion-dollar billboard and radio markets.
While it will not affect the hosts' league position - they remain well clear of the bottom but out of contention for Heineken Cup qualification - the victory boosted Sale's own European hopes.
Our most recent forecast -- a cautiously optimistic one -- is based on the expectation that the key Crisis economies should bottom out in early to mid-1999 and begin to recover slowly thereafter.
"October's final PMI rose to an eight-month high, implying that China's industrial activity continues to bottom out following a modest pick-up last month, " Qu Hongbin, chief China economist at HSBC, said in a statement.
Those figures reflect the fact that higher-income consumers have much better insurance coverage--those in the top fifth spend 15.1% of their budget on personal insurance and pensions, compared to just 2.4% in the bottom fifth--so their out-of-pocket expenses are much lower, says Scott Hoyt, director of consumer economics at Moody's Economy.com.
That distinction goes to Bernie Carbo, a pinch hitter who walloped a two-out, three-run homer in the bottom of the eighth to erase a 6-3 Cincinnati lead.
Hubert Neiss, director of the Asia and Pacific Department of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), forecasts that most Crisis-hit economies would bottom out in the first half of 1999.
When Wall Street went into meltdown last fall, the bottom fell out of the exotic-instrument market, and many of Harvard's private-equity investments proved to be unsalable--that is, worthless, at least temporarily.
Shuck, but the A's tied it in the bottom half on Adam Rosales' two-out single off Jerome Williams after a costly error by Angels first baseman Albert Pujols.
But it's not until I look down at the speedo that I realise, despite what my senses are telling me, despite the frenzied information downloaded through my fingers and bottom, despite the heady, laugh-out-loud fun I'm having, I'm only doing about 60mph, tops.
Joe Kinnear, confirmed as Newcastle manager until the end of the season 24 hours before kick-off, will be happy with a point that takes them out of the bottom three of the Premier League as arch-rivals Sunderland fall into the drop zone.
Bottom-of-the-table Augsburg played out a goalless draw at Hoffenheim in a game overshadowed by concern for Boris Vukcevic.
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But then again, it takes lower levels of fear to carve out a short-term bottom in a bull-market environment relative to a bear-market environment.
Gardenhire has won six division titles with Minnesota, but the bottom fell out when the Twins went 63-99 during a 2011 season wrecked by injuries.
Bottom-fishing investment banks eventually bailed hedge funds out of their problems.
As issues such as climate change and access to affordable medicines in emerging markets hit corporate bottom lines with ever-increasing impact, this out-performance gap will grow.
It draws out the solvents from the bottom-most layer of polish, leaving all the layers dry and hard, while conditioning cuticles with almond and jojoba oil.
Ulster now have five points but stay bottom of Pool Two with third-placed Bourgoin also out of contention on seven.
He says the financial disparity between top-tier and bottom-tier teams has taken much of the competition out of the sport.
In a head-to-head matchup between two contenders on Sept. 23, the teams were tied 1-1 with two out in the bottom of the ninth.
The Indians took Nuno in the 2009 draft's 48th round, an area usually used to find bodies to fill out the bottom levels of the minor-league system.
One massive corporation has the same bottom-line result as another and Wal-Mart edging out or buying out some competitors in an established market makes absolutely no difference.
Hamburg moved out of the bottom three after drawing 2-2 at Borussia Monchengladbach, with former Tottenham Hotspur midfielder Rafael van der Vaart opening the scoring for the visitors.
Real Zaragoza moved out of the bottom three with a 3-0 win that left Rayo Vallecano behind Sevilla on goal difference, while bottom club Mallorca drew 1-1 with midtable Levante.
Celta Vigo moved out of the bottom three with a 1-0 win over Espanyol, but Zaragoza ended the season at the foot of the table after losing 3-1 at home to third-placed Atletico.
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