They are the remnants of dry valleys in the chalk South Downs, which are gradually being eroded by the sea.

Decorative Chalk

BERKELEY The dollar has had its ups and downs, but the downs have clearly dominated of late.

Peacekeeping has had its ups and downs.

And a lot of people might use structures like abalone shells, like chalk.

Video She takes a piece of chalk and begins writing something on the floor.

Since then, the term has had ups and downs.

In which you shall neither see ups nor downs .

In which you shall neither see ups nor downs .

In Tunisia and Mozambique, teachers wear white coats to protect their street clothes from chalk.

Downs is a city in Osborne County, Kansas, United States.

Downs is a village in McLean County, Illinois, United States.

Chalk is a soft, white, porous sedimentary rock, a form of limestone composed of the mineral calcite.

Arun Shanbhag has a post full of photographs from blood pools, to chalk marks and a burning Taj Hotel.

They are said to live between the Barrow downs and the Old Forest.

Step downs were seen as important in assisting Parties to meet phase out targets.

Israeli security officials, for example, scoff at genital pat downs, which they say accomplish nothing.

This is hardly the first time I have stressed the need for wholesale debt write downs.

By desensitizing children to sexually inappropriate touching, the pat downs are destroying those hard won gains.

They provide much greater economic stability, measured by the ups and downs of the business cycle.

Well, in Senegal we found that this was the traditional classroom 120 kids three per desk one teacher, a little bit of chalk.

When in 1639 a large Spanish transport fleet sought refuge in the English Downs moorage, Charles did not dare to protect it against a Dutch attack the resulting Battle of the Downs undermined both Spanish sea power and Charles's reputation.

A linear reduction consisting of mostly 20 per cent step downs was considered practical and potentially achievable.

A linear reduction consisting of mostly 20 per cent step downs was considered practical and potentially achievable.

But the pre announcement of possible write downs still led to a major wave of uncertainty about banks.

Ruidoso Downs is a city in Lincoln County, New Mexico, United States, located within the Lincoln National Forest.

Germany would do well to remember that it has benefited from debt write downs three times in its history.

Europe s debt problems should, in fact, still be quite manageable provided the requisite write downs and debt restructurings are implemented.

It gets worse. TSA officials have been advised to tell small children that the sexual pat downs are a game.

They form part of the South Downs in East Sussex, between the towns of Seaford and Eastbourne in southern England.

And that's the way, ultimately after some ups and downs, I ended up designing the chair I'm going to show you.

Above all, any realistic strategy for dealing with the eurozone crisis must involve massive write downs (forgiveness) of peripheral countries debt.

Policymakers espousing debt write downs to spur growth should ask whether they have the political support to recapitalize banks if needed.

In more than three quarters of the 120 schools visited during the mission, there were no instructional materials such as chalk, chalkboards, books, science laboratories or other teaching aids.

The first was about 425,000 years ago, when an ice dammed lake in the southern North Sea overflowed and broke the Weald Artois chalk range in a catastrophic erosion and flood event.

Its response was to offer targeted and expedited debt relief often by bringing in new temporary bankruptcy legislation that forced limited debt write downs.

In my 2009 book with George Akerlof, Animal Spirits , we describe the ups and downs of a macroeconomy as being substantially driven by stories .

Representatives from the European Community agreed to show flexibility in the timing and percentage reduction of step downs, particularly the first and the last.

Latin America s rebirth and modern growth dynamic really only began to unfold after the 1987 Brady plan orchestrated massive debt write downs across the region.

Or is it something absolutely trivial, like a piece of lint, or a piece of chalk, or a I don't want to point to that, but or a shoe, or something like that? OK?

The US has annual trade turnover of more than 2 trillion, despite a flexible exchange rate that has seen sharp ups and downs in recent decades.

Debt write downs and guarantees will inevitably bloat Germany s government debt, as the authorities are forced to bail out German banks (and probably some neighboring countries banks).

One reason that banks oppose debt write downs is that many underwater homeowners continue to repay debt rather than default, even while cutting back on other spending.

So each time I draw my circle of chalk on the pavement and enter as the improvising comic silent character I created 45 years ago, I am as happy as when I am in the clouds.

There were some ups and downs along the way, but the overall trend has been downward, and the magnitude of the decline nearly five percentage points is striking.