marking down

Every night, she watches the long-running game show — which is in its 40th season — marking down how many answers she gets right.

Economists last week began marking down their growth forecasts anticipating that banking stress means a credit contraction lies ahead, with less money in the pockets of homeowners and businesses.

By early March, forecasters were raising their estimates of economic growth and marking down the risks of a recession, at least this year.

The part-time jobs I took to supplement my writing income also required constant checking, whether I was shelving books at the library or marking down shoes at Sears.

What has really struck me, however, is the way analysts have been marking down their longer-term projections for Chinese growth.