Word: spiral
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...immediate response in parliament was to close ranks behind Andreotti's new government so as to impose a sense of stability over the troubled country. Requesting a "total commitment to assure that Italy does not fall into a spiral of insecurity and ungovernability," Andreotti asked parliament for a speedy vote of confidence. Within hours, he received by far the biggest majority ever accorded a postwar government in Italy...
...edge, but long before they reach it, they are airborne. They head out over the water, lose altitude, and circle back to the beach, making long figure eights parallel to the cliffs, riding the natural updrafts that blow steadily from the sea. When they are ready to land they spiral up in the breeze to the cliff edge, turn towards it, and touch down...
...marked shift in public opinion would be necessary to interrupt the upward cycle of jury awards. Lawyers attribute the rising spiral to increased medical costs, a hostility to well-heeled or corporate defendants, greater sensitivity to the plight of disabled victims and an increased willingness of Americans to bring suit. Insurers are pressing for legislation to ease their burden by shortening statutes of limitation, putting a lid on lawyer contingency fees, and setting up Government reinsurance funds. But plaintiffs' lawyers insist that large awards often benefit society. Says Claremont, Calif, Lawyer William Shernoff: "I've seen case after...
...could such an institution abruptly die? The truth is, the demise was not so sudden. In recent years the Music Hall, like every U.S. business, has been caught in the spiral of rising costs. But its revenues have not risen accordingly. Attendance has dropped from 5 million in 1967 to less than 2 million last year. Those figures, how ever, only half explain the attendance problem...
...prospects for clear-headed compromise, national unity or reconciliation seem dim. Blue collar workers throughout France are resentful of many aspects of the current "Barre plan," especially the freezing of salaries in an attempt to stop the wage-price spiral. They are demanding cost-of-living increases, and their anger at Barre and "austerity" is increasingly virulent. (A nation-wide strike aimed at Barre in early December proved eminently successful...