Lord Mandelson urged the leadership candidates to be bolder because the party was heading downwards.
As to carrying concealed weapons, data reveals that before various states adopted such legislation, the overall crime rate (1985-2009) was heading downwards, but after their enactment in various jurisdictions (like Alabama, Mississippi, Missouri Florida), violence from guns bumped up.
Investors in the far east have been courted by developers and estate agents selling new build apartments off-plan, and the warnings suggest banks are concerned that prices might be heading downwards.
This was the highest negative reading since May 2009, when prices were heading downwards and the credit crunch was making it hard for first-time buyers and movers to raise mortgages.
Just as European growth seems to be picking up, perhaps to over 2% a year, America's appears to be heading downwards to not much more than that.In the short term America's economy is certainly slowing, as the latest GDP figures, due out on October 27th, are expected to show.
Rubio lost his momentum, and could be headed back downwards.
Inflation in the euro zone has been heading remorselessly downwards and was just 0.3% in the year to August.
Telecoms firms regard convergence as the best defence against the collapse in revenue from traditional phone calls, the price of which is heading inexorably downwards, and the migration of more and more traffic to mobile networks.
Spending on these was already heading downwards (see chart 2), and the deal accelerates the decline.The Democrats found the deal unbalanced because it contains no tax increases.
This is heading off directly downwards in this case, and is indicated by a thin blue line you might just be able to pick out.
