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--A downward subsidy reestimate means that the subsidy cost of direct loans or loan guarantees is estimated to be less than had previously been estimated.
The two forces will cause us to eat away at our capital, and the economy will head rapidly downward.
In our experience of working with people with HIV in Africa, the result of this burden is often a downward spiral marked by fatalism, self-loathing, and isolation from others.
But as Gortmaker points out, downward mobility explains only a small part of the observed relationship of income to obesity.
That is, if a study reports an estimate of 3 or some interval around it, and we were previously quite sure that the true value was 5 or more, the new evidence might push our beliefs downward, but it is not going to replace them.