Word: spiraling
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...Half a Canyon” is terrifying in its drive. “Grounded,” a ballad about a dentist, is still chilling a decade later. “Kennel District” is the best song that second-in-command “Spiral Stairs” Scott Kannberg ever wrote. The list goes on.That’s all well and good, of course, but you can’t praise a deluxe reissue just on the merits of the original—especially when that original is still in print. For the most part...
...rally in August, referred to a South Asian supporter of Webb's as "macaca," a term considered by many to be a racial slur. That helped lead to accusations that Allen had used racial slurs to describe blacks in the 1970's and put his campaign in a downward spiral that eventually put the race into a dead heat. It's been a bizarre campaign: Allen learned in the midst of it that his mother was Jewish, while Webb has become dogged by accusations that's he's a sexist, brought on by a 1979 article in which he called...
...says foam designs became fashionable in Boston three or four years ago. The Leaf and the more pedestrian Spiral are two common designs. And, they’re nice to look at while you wait for “that girl” who disingenuously told you that Central Square sounded like a terrific spot for a date...
...antidote to the cost spiral: puny raises and fatter deductibles. "Most companies realize they couldn't hire anybody if they didn't offer medical benefits," says Helen Darling, president of the National Business Group on Health. "But they also expect employees to share more of the burden." Workers can't help feeling it. According to Department of Labor statistics, salaries rose 3% from June 2005 to June 2006, but inflation rose 4.7% and health care...
...representative set of French voters liked the idea of citizen juries, while 34% didn't. Royal is not budging on her overall theme that the French polity is seriously ill and needs a transfusion of people power. She sees her country being "pulled down by a depressive spiral" and believes that "whole sections of French society feel excluded by the public debate...