Foreclosures, particularly if properties are vacant, can drag down housing values in a neighborhood.
Her care felt like something that would drag down the progress of human development.
Television and movies play to emotion (as do computer twitch games, which drag down kids' SAT scores).
If global turmoil continues to drag down Taiwan's economy, he says, it may stay in the doldrums.
This would drag down the value of securities the monolines have guaranteed and increase the banks' write-downs.
Second, unless France embraces the idea of competition, the creed of egalitarianism will drag down quality for everybody.
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The Asian crisis may further drag down the traded-goods sector and push down the prices of imported goods.
Regulators are concerned that the massive collapse of a single company could drag down the rest of the markets.
If equities continue to fall, that could drag down all commodities, including gold.
Asia's turmoil may well drag down America's growth rates, but, in doing so, it will help to restrain overheating.
As two-fifths of exports are shipped to the euro zone, recession there will drag down Britain's economy as well.
So long as foreign investors favour American equities, then, its large current-account deficit will not drag down the dollar.
That will drag down nominal GDP in the short term, and make budget cuts more difficult to carry out.
That would be bad for families, it would be bad for businesses, and it would drag down our entire economy.
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Nuthall managed to drag down the 6ft 2in, 15st wing but Glasgow skipper Mather was on his shoulder to dive over.
Big institutions, however, are increasingly inclined to invest directly, saving the double-whammy in fees which helps to drag down net performance.
It added that a two-degree rise, which some predict by 2050, would further drag down the number of viable resorts to 400.
Bad news in Europe and the U.S. will drag down India regardless of where the country stands with its ongoing inflation fight.
That will drag down the overall growth rate in the short run.
Tech stocks helped drag down the markets, among them Oracle (ORCL) which missed earnings expectations for the first time in a decade.
However, continued strength in U.S. dollar will drag down international revenue growth.
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Given the personal nature of the charges, Doak argued that even the worst-case scenario for Clinton need not drag down Democrats in general.
But a new political party hopes to capitalize on simmering fears that the euro crisis could deepen and drag down Europe's biggest economy.
Now's their chance to see regulations put in place to minimize systemic risk, so that one company doesn't drag down the financial system.
There are some concerns that if equities fall it will drag down other markets, including gold, because of the correlation markets have had together.
If there were a serious deflationary slowdown, that would certainly make life trickier for banks, especially if it were to drag down economic growth.
And then you have a numerically small minority who are terribly underserved, in terms of educational outcomes, and who drag down our educational statistics considerably.
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Browning also could have mentioned the recession in Europe, with record-high unemployment, that could still drag down American economic performance more than it has so far.
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He said properties left empty for a long time often attracted "vandalism and fly tipping and drag down the value of the properties all around them".
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