Word: spiraling
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...been on a downward spiral and we knew we needed to win," said co-captain Dana Sprong...
...form a natural, powerful chronological progression. Since the later periods were penned first, as fast-moving historical epics with little of the care for individual characters that the mature Shakespeare later lavished on the prequels, the effect is of a harrowing bleeding away of compassion. As the civil wars spiral out of control, sympathy for solitary victims gives way to a numb horror at the mounting carnage. Which, for anyone doubting the modern-day relevance of these works, is not so far from the reactions of television viewers barraged by blanket media coverage of atrocities in Bosnia or Rwanda...
...they blow it so badly? How did they run through the STOP signs? And could we have gleaned something they didn't in the months leading up to the slowdown? Here are some of the turning points that ultimately led business activity on a downward spiral...
Given the timing of this campaign and the stock market's recent downward spiral, students are hesitant to expect huge returns from their requests for funding. But Couch, the seasoned professional, is not overly worried...
Classic. My mind had leaped in the space of a nanosecond from a waiting room in Logan Airport to a death spiral over the Atlantic. Dr. Curtis Hsia of Boston University's Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders calls this automatic thinking. It was even worse a few hours earlier when, as part of my treatment for a debilitating case of aviophobia (fear of flying), Dr. Hsia had booked me on Exposure Airlines. It's the newest thing in phobic therapy: a virtual airplane of hardware, software and fancy head-mounted display screens that feels like the real thing...