His contention that Brazil's nascent economic recovery is doomed without top-to-bottom reform is falling on deaf ears in some quarters.
Britain must win to avoid falling into the bottom tier of the Davis Cup.
The Illini had been ranked as high as No. 10 and were now falling to the bottom of the Big Ten.
Unlike developing countries, which age from the bottom up because of a falling birth rate, rich countries age from the middle, adding old people with fewer workers to support them, and even fewer children to join the workforce.
"We haven't seen the bottom yet and employment will continue falling in the first quarter, " said Jose Luis Martinez, strategist at investment bank Citigroup.
The Unity Marketing Luxury Consumption Index, took its steepest quarterly plunge since the recession (between fourth quarter 2007 to first quarter 2008), falling 16.8 points to bottom out at 66 points.
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Sure enough, it has been a bottom performer in the 12 months since then, falling 33% versus a 17% gain for the overall stock market.
Prices had been falling since late April, but have found a bottom this week and are heading higher.
Still, the technical damage that has occurred over the past two weeks suggests that once stocks stop falling, choppy sideways action is likely before a bottom can be completed.
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Thus, the composition of benthic communities (the term indicates a dependency on the bottom) will rely partly on the availability of organic substances falling all the way down to the seabed.
"The big picture is that the UK has stalled, it's bouncing along the bottom, it's stable, not growing very much, not falling very much, " said Rob Wood, economist at Berenberg Bank.
There is a four-team scrap for the three remaining spots in the Champions League for next season, but the real drama is at the bottom of the table, where several teams could still be relegated by falling to 18th place in the 20-team Premier League.
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Falling prices may discourage people from opening their wallets, but rock-bottom prices also encourage spending.
Given that U.S. housing prices peaked at the end of 2005, this means that the bottom won't come before the end of 2010, with real housing prices falling perhaps another 8%-10% from current levels.
I'm in the bottom three, nothing is going well, the results aren't great, apparently I'm falling out with players.
"The economy still faces powerful contractionary forces in the shape of widespread recession abroad, and at home falling house prices and stock markets, blunted monetary policy as banks constrain lending and rock-bottom business and consumer confidence, " says Andrew Smith, chief economist at KPMG.
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