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Carriers, brokers and shippers are all saying they are seeing slow business as a result of uncertainty about downstream consumption amid trade friction, high interest rates, a government shutdown and a broader recession risk.

Officials had expected it would take the floodwater two hours to reach inhabited areas downstream and only people living near the river would be affected.

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Eliminating cash bail had other excellent downstream effects.

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Federal officials have said they want to keep Lake Powell well above a point where water could pass downstream only through Glen Canyon Dam’s low-level bypass tubes.

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Just as important, Kirk sensed and exploited the complacency and weakness of liberal culture, and understood, in the cliché of our age, that politics is a downstream subsidiary.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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