In reality, on a fruit tree, the fruit that hangs low down is easier to pick, so there's a link between this idea and the idiomatic meaning of the phrase in a business situation.
Other research has reached similar conclusions about jobs lower down the pay scale: being able to work well with people is seen not as some fluffy bonus but as a vital attribute.
The storms may have dredged up very reflective methane ice from lower down in the atmosphere — and this time, I do mean icy ice — which is why they were bright.
That leaders depend on followers might seem blindingly obvious, but the way that people lower down the ladder interact with those above them gets much less attention than the reverse.
You need to start pretty much in twilight as soon as the sun has set, and then you need to look over at Mercury and Saturn over in the west, both very low down.
Binet was there; that is to say, a little lower down against the terrace wall, fishing for crayfish. Bovary invited him to have a drink, and he thoroughly understood the uncorking of the stone bottles.
Through these programs people were allowed to pay an upfront, relatively low down payment, and then to cover the rest of the cost through monthly mortgage payments.