Word: spins
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...Gandhi was at the peak of her power, but she was still unable to deal with the huge problems of governing India. The costs of the 1971 war, which had brought millions of refugees pouring into India, helped send the economy into another spin. The badly divided Congress Party was widely accused of graft and incompetence. Mrs. Gandhi's main interest was in claiming the role of a great power. She detonated India's first atom bomb in 1974 and reached out for Soviet aid and weaponry to re-equip India's armed forces...
While it is still impossible to determine which, if either, is correct, Hartman says that recent data shows that young stars spin slowly. Moreover, this suggests that the disk theory is incorrect, as it says that stars should be rapidly rotating when formed...
What was even more surprising was the finding that after formation, stars like the Sun spin up rapidly. With rotational periods of less than a day, stars spin down as they age. The Sun's present rotational period is 25 days...
Most astronomers expected that stellar rotation slows uniformly with age, says Douglas K. Dunean of the Mt. Wilson and Las Campanas Observatories, but "nobody had expected a period when stars spin...
...stars age, they eject matter, which causes them to spin down as angular momentum is carried away, explains Ross D. Cohen of the University of California at San Diego. If stars contract, they may spin up by this effect alone. The spin up of stars is apparently possible during periods when star contraction is much more rapid than matter ejection...