Struggling with an evaporation of advertising and a downward drift in street corner sales, The New York Times intends to introduce a "metered" model at the beginning of 2011.
为了应对广告的减少和街角销售的下滑，《纽约时报》打算在2011年初引进一种“计量”模型。
He works backward, building a house from the top downward.
他倒着干活，从上往下盖房子。
She was trapped in a downward spiral of personal unhappiness.
她陷入了个人不幸的旋涡难以自拔。
The risk is that Mr Snow has not just shifted towards benign neglect of the dollar, but hopes to do a bit of active (downward) prodding.
The long-term chart of the euro shows the steady slide from the 2011 high at 1.4925 and a well-defined downward trading channel (lines c and d) .
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Indeed, some public pension plans, including the country's largest (the California Public Employee Retirement System) are considering a downward revision of expected returns, which would increase the estimated funding gap.