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• v  provide with a bottom or a seat
• v  strike the ground, as with a ship's bottom
• v  come to understand
• a  having a bottom of a specified character

• A person's vision may cloud a little as he tries to peer into the shadows of Swiss bank vaults or into the double-bottomed luggage of the Marcos real estate deals.
• Manufacturing looks to have bottomed, inventories are being sold off and consumers are still spending the contraction that began in March is expected to give way to some form .
• No matter that the fan shouting alongside is mandarin or mendicant, from the mainland or local born, a great-great-grandma with bound feet or a bare-bottomed tot, the voices are one.

• bottom
• penetrate
• fathom

• bottomless

News & Articles

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• Facebook upgraded to Buy from Hold at Stifel
  Stifel upgraded Facebook with a $29 price target citing near-term catalysts and its belief that shares have bottomed. The firm sees potential catalysts from inclusion in the S&P 500 Index, enthusiasm over ...
  June 10, 2013 - Theflyonthewall.com via Yahoo! Finance
• Housing: Watch Inventory
  I've been watching for sale inventory very closely this year. My guess is inventory probably bottomed early this year. Inventory in many areas is still very low, but when more inventory comes on the market, buyer urgency will wane - and price increases will slow.
  June 9, 2013 - Calculated Risk

Quotes

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• Howard Schultz in Newsweek
  While store traffic was still lower in the fourth quarter, which ended Sept. 30, a slight improvement in the first few weeks of October may suggest, "perhaps, let's underline perhaps, we've bottomed out during the fourth quarter, but we're still...
• Paul Otellini in Times Online
  However, Paul Otellini, president and chief executive of Intel, said: "We believe PC sales bottomed out during the first quarter and the industry is returning to normal seasonal patterns."
• Wen Jiabao in Reuters India
  The financial crisis, (on a scale) rarely seen in 100 years, is still spreading and has not bottomed out yet,Wen said during a rare online chat.