Word: spiral
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sorcery and spirit worship. There is little in them to distinguish today from yesterday. Works are not dated; subject matter is part of a continuous tradition handed down from monk to monk, generation to generation. Often the meaning of the centuries-old silk tapestries is obscure. The Mystic Spiral, intended for monastic meditation, is a vision whose precise symbolism is known only to a few learned lamas. To the Western viewer, its concentric circles, drawing him into a dizzying infinity, are startlingly like contemporary op and psychedelic art. The God of 1,000 Eyes, though menacing in appearance with...
...Ruinous Spiral." Without the surcharge, the President argued in his ten-page special message, the deficit could cause "a spiral of ruinous inflation which would rob the poor, the elderly, the millions with fixed incomes; brutally higher interest rates and tight money; an unequal and unjust distribution of the cost of supporting our men in Viet Nam, and a deterioration in our balance of payments by increasing imports and decreasing exports...
There is no longer much fear that more U.S. troops would send the fragile South Vietnamese economy into an unmanageable inflationary spiral. Meanwhile the big U.S. construction projects, with their heavy demands on local labor and materials, have been leveling off. Storage facilities and a runway have been completed at Cam Ranh Bay, for example, and new docks have been put into operation along the Saigon River near the capital, ending what was once a serious logistic logjam...
...Cincinnati school superintendent: "People say that Johnny can't read anymore, or Mary can't spell, or kids aren't being taught arithmetic." Voting against bigger school budgets also represents one of the few direct ways that citizens can express their anger at a seemingly endless spiral of rising taxes. Basically, says Calvin Rossi, legislative representative of the California Teachers' Association, the voters "are not saying no to the schools. They are saying no to higher property taxes. Turning down school budgets and bond issues is the only way they can register their protest...
...Already passed in the House and Long's Senate Finance Committee, the bill would restore 7% tax credits for capital investments by industry. The credits were suspended last Oct. 10 when the Administration feared the economy was heading into an inflationary spiral...