Looking initially like a fastball, it darts down as it reaches home plate, leaving batters flailing at thin air.
And the programme has now slowed down as it reaches the banks and insurance companies and big state-owned lossmakers.
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Luckily, on January 1, 2000, the cops showed up and shut the bunker down as it violated fire codes.
The bank led the market down as it broke its uptrend support, resolving the upper level wedge to the downside.
The fuel cannot melt down in a thorium reactor because it is already molten, and reactions slow down as it cools.
Officials in the tower said the plane was too high and did not have its landing gear down as it approached the airport.
In all probability the market will settle down as it, like the rest of Mexico, gets used to the long wait until September 6th.
Investigators are reported to be relying on a stream of automated messages sent out just before the crash, which suggested the plane's systems shut down as it flew through high thunderstorms.
You can move the handset (and its front-facing camera) up and down as it speeds along any flat surface, responding to commands from someone on the other end of a Skype video chat.
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Some retail experts say that a mature company such as Wal-Mart, with over 3, 200 stores, is bound to see its comp store sales slow down as it builds multiple locations in many markets.
Radar embedded in the front of the Fusion sweeps the road ahead and when the adaptive cruise control is activated the car automatically slows down as it approaches another vehicle within a certain distance and then speeds up when the gap widens.
Congress could either provide guidelines to the executive on how default spending reduction is to occur or it could give the president authority, after paying all interest on the debt and Social Security payments, to whittle spending down as it sees fit to squeeze it within the debt limit.
If the Fed wants to reduce the longer-term rates that really matter, it must not only get short-term rates down, as it has done, but it must also signal to the market that they will stay down.
The current tax debate is as much about job creation down market as it is about helping major U.S. multinationals make more money.
But even if it is occasionally knocked down, as it was by these bombings, the real Boston story is how it always gets up again.
He slammed the book shut, holding the cover down as though it might spring back open accusingly.
But again, poor passing was letting them down as Watford found it far too easy to break down their forays forward.
As the clock ticked down it seemed as though the momentum of the contest had swung firmly in the favour of the green and gold but their hopes of emulating their exploits in 2006 by progressing from their group were effectively ended when substitute Marko Pantelic pulled a goal back for Serbia after 84 minutes.
It was a poor attempt and duly punished when Smith touched down the ball as it dribbled towards the deadball line.
In reaction to this Facebook has been pulling down the pages as it finds them.
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Its sales are flat-to-down, even as it acquires other printers, because many business lines are shrinking.
Unemployment will not go down as quickly as it would have -- and there are lives behind that.
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The main cause of the slow down as Jaquier sees it is a lack of confidence, mostly linked to policy making.
Apple stock is down again today as it continues a long decline off of the dizzying heights it saw in the buildup to the iPhone 5.
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Despite its ethos of transparency and a mission to make the world more open, Facebook seems to be battening down its hatches as it comes under FTC scrutiny for privacy concerns.
Four million dollars might be a lot to spend on a holiday, but those in the nascent space tourism industry say hoteliers have been slow on the uptake because no one thought the cost of space travel would come down as quickly as it has.
Being forced to submit to a privacy-rending body scan or pat-down - unpleasant as it may be - is not likely to compare to the trauma that can flow from being forced to submit to showering or sharing a bunkroom with someone who finds you sexually attractive.
"I said last week that it would have been a very good thing if he stepped down, as I felt it would give him an opportunity to step back and reorganize his own cricket, " said McMorris.
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