Word: spiral
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...gave way to a new boom, millions of investors have put a few thousand dollars each into the market, mostly by way of mutual funds. The great majority are getting their first bitter taste of a down market. If they panic and sell out, they could turn a downward spiral into a genuine crash...
...available on a Drag City CD called Westing, By Musket and Sextant), and the whole dynamic seemed changed, for the worse. The Pavement of Crooked Rain is indeed a very different animal from past records. Until now every Pavement record was the product Malkmus and his partner Spiral Stairs, plus drumming by a crazy and amazing hippie named Gary. They played all the instruments, and in most cases there wasn't even a bass guitar. This may not sound so appealing, but it was how they did it, and believe met it worked...
...University benefits program provides health care and pension plans for University employees. Four years ago. the benefits program had s solid reserve; now it is in a spiral of debt that appears will not end without serious reform of the benefits system...
...BALL. A metal sphere just over two feet in diameter was placed at the bottom of a long, spiral track. The ball moved, as if by magic, slowly and smoothly up the perilous incline. Almost 24 feet in the air, the ball stopped . . . A pistol shot rang out, and hands holding flags emerged through holes in the ball...
Descending ominously, the ball traveled back down the spiral and settled on the ground. The hemispheres split and . . . LaRoche ((born Leon Rauch in 1857)), a full-sized man, emerged . . . to a tumultuous reception . . . The skill to move the ball up the long spiral, constantly shifting the center of gravity forward but not from side to side, was considerable...