grinding down

Just as uncontrollable financial, demographic and other forces have wreaked havoc in Hollywood, California’s wine industry is now reeling from epochal stresses that are grinding down yet another mainstay of the state’s economy.

There isn’t as much value in grinding down starters, either, with a string of talented relief arms usually beckoning in the bullpen.

The Fed has been holding the federal funds rate at the highest level in more than two decades in hopes of grinding down on the economy enough to get high inflation fully under control.

And Camu suggests considering an alternative to the conventional approach of erasing every bit of the tree, including pulling or grinding down the stump.

The Fed’s main rate is at its highest level since 2001 in hopes of grinding down inflation.