Word: spiraling
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...think pretty consistently since we started our downward spiral our defense is the first thing that went,” Delaney-Smith said. “We picked up full [court defense] to sort of reemphasize that it’s all about defense. We’re not really trying to steal the ball or do anything in the backcourt. We’re just trying to emphasize defense...
...students has led Harvard to create an assembly-line approach to therapy. Students are quickly ushered in, and sometimes nudged out, of getting care. Some patients are cared for by multiple clinicians who do not communicate with each other—allowing some students’ conditions to spiral out of control as they fall between the cracks of the system...
...proudly announcing that it had defeated snail fever, the mollusk began returning. Last year, according to statistics from the Ministry of Health, 810,000 people contracted schistosomiasis, more than double the number of cases in 1988. But experts caution that the real figure is much higher and could spiral further upward upon completion of the Three Gorges Reservoir, which might cause the snails to spread eastward. Jiang Changzao, a former official at China's largest reed plantation, which supplies pulp for paper, says that almost every reed cutter working the fields near Dongting Lake is now infected with schistosomiasis...
...formal courses at colleges and high schools across the country. Over two weekends, Pearson's students learn methods developed by researchers at the University of Denver and used for marital counseling in churches and in the military. They watch videos of fighting couples and discuss how conflicts can spiral out of control. They learn tidy formulas for success and failure in love: the three characteristics of successful couples (one is a man who can accept influence from a woman), the four behaviors that spell doom (constant criticism is a biggie). Each time Pearson rattles off a list of rules...
...believe that when you treat students more as adults, you’ll start to see more adult-like behavior,” he says. Eventually, “I think you’ll see a general across the board willingness of people to be part of that spiral of interaction...