"We are in a downward stair-steps cycle where the next step is going to be down again in the second quarter," he said.

For its part, the athletic department says there is no downward cycle to stop.

It is a downward cycle that once started is hard to stop.

It also showed the start of a downward cycle in 1989, when the average dropped to $40,000 per unit.

Far from leading to a downward cycle, this kind of violence is the precondition to peace.

This would help bring a halt to the destructive downward cycle in credit.

The schools operated separately until the early 1990s, when a downward cycle in enrollments led to their consolidation into a single high school.

But by then, the currency was nearing the end of its downward cycle.

Unless he could control his own coalition - which he couldn't - the downward cycle was just going to continue.

We haven't seen any sign that things are on a downward cycle.