When President Bush realized he couldn't catch Osama quickly, he was downgraded faster than a telecom stock.
As a result, he was downgraded to mid-level DLA: "It happens so easily, so randomly," Michelle says.
TITANS INJURY PROBLEMS Tennessee right guard Benji Olson will miss Sunday's wild-card playoff game against San Diego after he was downgraded from doubtful to out.
He was turned down because training had caused a duodenal ulcer, and his hearing was still problematic; as a result he was downgraded from A1 to B1 fitness at the start of 1943.
Nick Clegg has sought to ease fears that he is downgrading child poverty targets by announcing the establishment of a child poverty and social mobility commission – a measure charities feared had been shelved.
Analyst Doug Leggate said that refiners' earnings power has become stronger, but that he is downgrading the shares because of the recent run-up in the stock.
The disabled person who's deemed not quite disabled enough will now lose around £30 a week, as she or he is downgraded to ordinary jobseeker's allowance.
"I tend to be pretty monolithic in my thinking about this," Intel Chief Executive Paul Otellini Paul Otellini insisted on Wednesday, when he announced that his company was downgrading its outlook for the next three months.
"On the other hand, there was market noise about the PIGS and the United States before they were downgraded," he noted, using an acronym for the European countries swept up in the debt crisis — Portugal, Ireland, Greece and Spain.
The state's credit rating was downgraded, he has been berated by Republican governors in other states for his handling of the record deficit and was bullied into approving sweeping tax breaks to convince many Illinois businesses to stay put -- which was somewhat unappreciated.
