Word: spiral
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...performance in the programming office did not translate as well to the stage. The fascination in this particular ballet lies in the buildup to the climactic fifth movement: as Phillip Glass’ music becomes more and more dramatic and exciting, the dancers drop clothes and spiral out of control in a frenzy of ecstatic and hopeless passion. But without the context of the first four movements, the fifth and only one presented looked too easy, and the dancers looked too happy, for Tharp’s imagination to come to life. Still, there was something about the ambition...
...plummeted nearly 40% in just three months, from about $147 a barrel in July to below $83 on Friday, with no obvious bottom in sight. If that sounds good, you are probably a driver who winces these days at filling your gas tank. But the downward spiral could mean trouble for oil-rich countries and for the environment...
...spotted Eliza J. Livingstone ’09, the only other person in the room, sashaying fervently on an elliptical near the window. Although in the midst of a weight-loss, hill-climb, level-five, Livingstone was still thumbing through “Us Weekly,” a spiral-bound course pack, and unread emails in her Blackberry. Suddenly, Lucile M. Maxwell ’09 sprang into the cardio room, upsetting Livingstone’s apparent productivity. The newbie hopped onto a machine to Eliza’s left side and tried to strike up conversation...
...financial losses which took their toll on his saved-up profits. Suddenly having an M.B.A., working one's way up in finance and using one's business acumen to make solid investments offered little protection and security. "The essence of it was that this was a man's emotional spiral downward due to financial difficulties. He saw it as a tragedy, a disaster that had befallen him. He lost perspective," said the LAPD's Moore. "He thought his life circumstances were because he was a failure. He got caught up in a rabbit hole, apart from reality...
...question now is whether or not the Fed's rate cut is enough to reverse the markets' downward spiral. Many analysts in Asia say it is not. "I don't think that the coordinated rate cut will work," said JPMorgan's Kanno. "The only thing it could do is to buy time. Monetary policy doesn't work anymore, once confidence is lost." Kanno and other observers in Japan - recalling their own painful financial crisis in the 1990s - believe the solution needs to be far more dramatic. They advocate that the U.S. government directly invest taxpayer money into private financial firms...