downwards

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The report outlines how the Earth's network of deep ocean currents are driven by the downwards movement of cold, dense saltwater towards the sea bed near Antarctica.

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McNamara hurtles downwards, but only seems to creep towards the wave's bottom, as it swells almost as fast as he can ride it.

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Hong Kong's Hang Seng index had already closed down 2.13%, and Wall Street is expected to continue its drift downwards when markets open there later.

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But several financial institutions, including the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, have revised expectations downwards.

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Sylvia Richardson, chair of biostatistics at the University of Cambridge, says some of the figures from France have been revised downwards.

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