Word: spiraling
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...exactly, do you trade up an entire company? First, you stop the downward spiral. When Fiske took over Bath & Body Works in February 2003, same-store sales were skidding, having dropped 3% in 2002 and 11% the year before. Former CEO Beth Pritchard built the chain from nothing to 1,600 stores and $1.8 billion in revenue in just 10 years, but consumers were growing tired of folksy fare like Juniper Breeze shampoo gift baskets and were starting to find palatable alternatives in drugstores and discount chains, which had begun an upscale lurch of their own. Fiske came in, began...
...spent a large part of my second day of blogging addressing people?s reactions to my first day. The interactive spiral had begun. I corrected my English, clarified my ideas, shortened my sentences, and posted new chunks of writing every three hours or so, reading through countless e-mails in the intervals and responding to them both directly and on the website. Compared to the inertia of writing the old way- with plenty of time to meet one?s deadlines, precious little awareness of one?s readers, and no easy way to offer second thoughts after one?s first thoughts...
...multiply that scenario across the thousands of European businesses dependent on crude oil, which hit a record $68 per bbl. last week and is up over 40% in the past six months. The result should be an inflationary spiral like the one that followed the oil shock of the mid-1970s, right? Not quite. For much of Europe, inflation remains muted; French consumer prices actually dropped in July. And the overall economic outlook seems to be improving in some places, most notably in Germany, Europe's biggest economy...
...scanner's computer reconstructs the spiral slices into hundreds of 2-D images, much like slices from a loaf of bread...
...detector array records the X rays. Each complete loop creates a spiral slice of the heart composed of 64 thin slices, offering exceptional resolution...