"He was quite down and shaken because he was sharing a room with the man that died, " she added.
And although Obama is really quite down to earth and millions of Americans would love to sit down with him for a drink and a chat, they might be too awestruck and hamstrung to think of anything to say, for fear of sounding crass, offensive or stupid.
He has never quite lived down his reputation as a carpet-bagger, earned in his early days.
"I have gone quite far down the road in my negotiations with Italy, " he said.
Firefighters do come quite low down in the public-sector pay league (see chart).
"It is quite tight down there, two or three wins together and you're looking at mid-table comfortably or just above, " said Wrack.
And, as the bears will say, we never quite got down to that level nor did we spend enough time bumping along the bottom.
Despite the global adulation, Labour's policies did not go down quite as well at home.
"The server license and the seat license has come down quite a bit, " said Mr. Yanez.
Before finding his niche in Middle Eastern detective thrillers, Sussman made his first foray into novel writing down quite a different path.
As I pointed out in a piece for BBC News at 10 on Monday, UK growth has been pushed down quite a lot recently by declining North Sea oil and gas output.
The world in the last six months--I don't remember any time, maybe even the Great Depression, when things went down quite so fast, quite so uniformly around the world.
The answer comes down to quite good news, but not in the ways you think.
Sales growth of 11% this year is still quite respectable, although down from the 25% 5-year average.
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Clouds hung low, like curtains pulled not quite all the way down.
Obviously many in the Cabinet have been down there quite a bit.
But United is in deep trouble: it filed for bankruptcy protection last year and it now seems quite likely to shut down altogether.
The company isn't quite ready to narrow down which vehicles will see what upgrades, although we're told the early strategy may split CloudCar and MirrorLink between different model lines.
Then down come prices quite suddenly due to a small amount of surplus oil.
It does, however, leave the door open to Scotland opting for its own currency quite a long way further down the road, giving Holyrood much more genuine independence.
So it is going to take quite some time to bring down the unemployment rate and to -- particularly to add the number of jobs that we've lost.
Forbes.com sat down--quite literally on the floor, as there were no chairs in sight--with Ryder at the Sands Expo area of CES to get his take on what really counts as convergence.
That still creeps us out just a bit, but it did work quite well when we turned down the lights -- our face was still pretty clear to our friend on Skype.
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