1. Ameliorations: as in increases, upturns

2. 21 In fact, economists have proved notoriously inept at predicting upturns and downturns.

3. Pittsfield is the phoenix of the Berkshires, having weathered several economic upturns and downturns, while always finding creative ways to reinvent itself

4. View in context Now Doubt - now Pain Come never again, For her soul gives me sigh for sigh, And All day long Shines, bright and strong, Astarté within the sky, While ever to her dear Eulalie upturns her matron eye