On the average day, the upward and downward regulating resources may be called upon as often as 50 times (in a typical calendar year, Demark exports and imports nearly 30% of its overall electricity consumption).

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Swaying from side to side, his back arched almost to the point of snapping, Jamie Foxx, as Ray Charles, seems pulled upward to the heavens and downward to the keys at the same time.

NEWYORKER: Ray

As ever, the argument would be that the Bank cannot hope to control what is happening across the Channel, or prevent it from darkening the prospects for the UK. But it can do all it can to offset the upward pressure on bank funding costs and the downward effects on confidence.

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If the trade imbalance is sterilized and not allowed to affect the exchange rate, then there will be upward pressure on foreign prices and nominal incomes and downward pressure on U.S. prices and nominal incomes.

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Now the gradual upward spiral in prices and credit availability becomes a rapid downward spiral in prices and credit availability as banks quickly tighten lending standards to avoid even more credit defaults.

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As the Fed looks to keep rates low and the ECB is seen as an eager rate riser, so globally one can expect downward pressure on the Dollar and upward pressure on rice.

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With power passing downward to the devolved parliaments, and upward to the European Union, it is inevitable that Britain's central political institutions will change as well.

ECONOMIST: Britain

In their vivid imaginations, they see upward-sloping supply curves, downward-sloping demand curves, and all the implications that arise from these and other assumptions.

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Reading from right to left, the green line is almost uniformly upward sloping as we add antipodal countries until reaching Japan, and almost uniformly downward sloping for more equatorial countries.

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