But when Dear traded in his part-time council gig for the job as a full-time boss in the clerk's office, things allegedly went downhill fast.
We walked downhill from his office to the hotel's broad, pebble-strewn terrace, where there were some fifteen widely spaced tables.
Once we lost our office space, it went quickly downhill.
But things went downhill soon after Mr. Obama took office and, within months, called for a halt in Israeli settlement construction in the West Bank.
With Mr. McCain in office, she said, she feared "everything would go downhill from here".
Colleagues remembered him showing up for work at 7 a.m., after having often put in time at the gym, and working until 11 p.m. Outside of the office, Mr. Aaron was known for athletic pursuits like downhill skiing, tennis and golf.
"The good thing is, on the way into Manhattan, it's more downhill, so I can get to my office and not have to take a shower.
"The company was going downhill and declining," says Baussan from an office a floor above the production lines at the Manosque factory.
In a move that stunned both political allies and foes alike, President Barack Obama resigned today after serving 100 days in office, telling the White House press corps, "It's all downhill from here".
The films went steadily downhill, both in quality and in box-office performance, as the condition known as "sequelitis" took hold.Harry Potter is a wholly different product.
