From the get go, top down, our ownership and management has made it a priority to compete at the top level in all competitions.
Why? "The industry has its relationships at the top of government, so it made sense for them to go top down," says Helen Slottje, who, together with her husband David, runs an Ithaca-based non-profit called The Community Environmental Defense Council, Inc. that's a prime mover for home rule.
If you go top-down in a hurry, you can crash and burn.
"But now we're going top-down and starting with private buildings," she said, "because there is this influx of people who are financially successful and who are thinking about these issues and how to have a structure that tells the story of their lives".
Instead of starting with the trucking companies and going bottoms up, as do those companies, we're going top down, building our platform for shipping customers, and they are pushing our app down on the platform, saying to trucking companies, "If you want our business, you have to use our platform".
Hillary lost the election because she was going top down not bottom up.
Or you can go top-up but windows-down, creating an open, pillarless coupe like the Mercedes-Benz CL550.
Because I think for women it is going to be "top down" progress or nothing at all… — VJO, DC.
"We're going up top-down".
Out goes the top-down bureaucracy; in comes grassroots expertise, be it in the hands of parents, community figures or for that matter Britain's brilliant scientists, doctors and musicians.
"The powers from this membership are flowing up, when historically how it went was from the top down," said Joe Strasburg, the president of the Rent Stabilization Association, who was chief of staff to the last speaker, Peter F. Vallone, from 1986-94.
