Word: downward
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...right direction," and in a year in which violence has reached its worst levels since the U.S. invasion of the country in 2001, he voiced concerns that next year in Afghanistan could be even worse. His fears echo a nearly completed U.S. National Intelligence Assessment that has described a "downward spiral" in Afghanistan unless major improvements are immediately implemented. Meanwhile, the Bush Administration has launched a major review of its Afghanistan policy just as new ground-based intelligence indicates that this winter may not yield the expected lull in fighting that would have allowed a deployment of extra troops...
...plummeted nearly 40% in just three months, from about $147 a barrel in July to below $83 on Friday, with no obvious bottom in sight. If that sounds good, you are probably a driver who winces these days at filling your gas tank. But the downward spiral could mean trouble for oil-rich countries and for the environment...
...pain will soon come to Main Street - in Beijing and Brussels as much as in Boise. Economists are already outlining the downward spiral that they predict will follow. Banks will cut back on their lending to households and businesses. Mortgages and car loans will become harder to get. That in turn will stifle consumer spending and crimp investment in companies, leading to production cuts and job losses. Judging by previous crises, it can take about 18 months to two years for a financial squeeze to spread to the rest of the economy, which means that 2009 is shaping...
...losses which took their toll on his saved-up profits. Suddenly having an M.B.A., working one's way up in finance and using one's business acumen to make solid investments offered little protection and security. "The essence of it was that this was a man's emotional spiral downward due to financial difficulties. He saw it as a tragedy, a disaster that had befallen him. He lost perspective," said the LAPD's Moore. "He thought his life circumstances were because he was a failure. He got caught up in a rabbit hole, apart from reality...
...question now is whether or not the Fed's rate cut is enough to reverse the markets' downward spiral. Many analysts in Asia say it is not. "I don't think that the coordinated rate cut will work," said JPMorgan's Kanno. "The only thing it could do is to buy time. Monetary policy doesn't work anymore, once confidence is lost." Kanno and other observers in Japan - recalling their own painful financial crisis in the 1990s - believe the solution needs to be far more dramatic. They advocate that the U.S. government directly invest taxpayer money into private financial firms...