Word: spiral
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While still unproved, the hypothesis is stirring a debate about an aeronautical phenomenon called wake vortex. That dry bit of technical jargon refers to the rotating, high-energy tornadoes that spiral behind and downward from the wing tips of an aircraft. Such turbulence behaves much like the wake of a ship: the heavier the vessel's displacement weight, the more violent and long lasting the disturbance. In air, as on water, if a craft trails this whirling vortex too closely, it can be buffeted brutally. For more than a decade the National Transportation Safety Board, which investigates accidents, has exhorted...
...they differed as to how great the risk might be. Sinai cautioned that the economy has entered a hazardous "zone of full employment" in which companies are producing all that they can and any strong increase in demand could drive up wages and prices. Wages have already begun to spiral higher in industries as varied as insurance and mining, he said. Other panelists, however, discounted the threat. Said Stephen Roach, senior international economist for Morgan Stanley: "The efficiency that's being built into American industry is going to allow the U.S. ample running room to sustain economic growth...
...afford to pass up an opportunity to attract 70-plus percent of all voters, especially when every other candidate is doing it. The result is that they all contribute to a downward spiral, a free-for-all of Congress-bashing similar to small children ravishing an apple tree for the most apples, only to find that they've destroyed the entire plant...
...Square Root of Wonderful" has been labeled by critics as Carson McCullers' "failed play." When the show folded after only 45 performances, its failure sent McCullers on a downward spiral of depression and self-destruction from which she never recovered...
...tacked-on ending seems like an easy way out of the spiral of commotion that the events build up to. It's as if Shue finally agreed to consent and said, "Enough!" But the abrupt change reads more like an easy way out of a fine mess. As the grand finale approaches, all of the characters are running around the room, slopping food on each other, and singing. Their ruckus is ingratiating in small spurts but after a while it becomes annoying theater. Like dupes, they try to mimic the Nerd in the hopes that he'll be repulsed...