She eased into the downshift, starting a hobby as a beekeeper with two hives.

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The car is still silky smooth in corners, although in Sport you can actually get the back tires to spin after a downshift.

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Managers generally expect a decent amount to close in February but without a significant increase in new-issue supply volume could downshift considerably by March.

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If you're after performance, you can stay in lower gears longer for maximum acceleration and you can downshift, using drag from the engine to help slow the car.

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Just as the momentum behind U.S. energy sanctions against Iran shifted into high gear, Turkey and Brazil this week tried to downshift with a much ballyhooed nuclear-fuel swap deal.

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Our latest estimates of aggregate weekly payrolls (workers X hours X hourly pay) for production workers still shows a downshift in 2012, though that is likely to be revised up.

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"You downshift your lifestyle and save more, " he said.

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In 2008, however, NGDP takes a complete downshift.

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And our last word in business is downshift.

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Having said that, and to answer your question, we did an extra scrub on all of our companies to make sure that their leverage ratios, their balance sheets, could support perhaps a downshift in economic growth.

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She did not want to downshift.

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