Word: spiraling
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...cattle imported from Ireland, which confirmed its first cases in County Louth north of Dublin. In Britain dozens of cases were confirmed daily and 514 cases had been certified by week's end. Farmers' gloom deepened as the government's chief scientific adviser feared that the epidemic could spiral out of control and half of Britain's livestock may have to be slaughtered. Late in the week the E.U. approved limited use of vaccination to fight the spread of the disease...
...Investors now attach so little value to China's Internet gurus that they have driven down the share price of all three homegrown portals, as well as that of Hong Kong's Chinadotcom, to below the cash value of their assets. Unable to stand the downward spiral any longer, Helen He, chief financial officer at Netease for 18 months, recently quit. "It tarnishes your spirit," says the former investment banker. Joseph Chen, one of Sohu's top guns, has left China altogether to find a new future in Plano, Texas. "Plano is one of the most exciting places...
...office's front window taunted him every time he walked by. On his way out Monday, it was at 12,171, its lowest point since the mid-1980s. By 9:30 a.m. Tuesday: 11,710. On Thursday on his way to lunch: 11,800. "We're in a vicious spiral now," Suzuki says...
...three seats in Queensland compared with 11 in the previous election. Using Australia's preferential voting system to best effect, One Nation played a key part in humiliating the Liberal-National coalition in the Queensland and Western Australia elections. True, John Howard's coalition has been on a downward spiral federally, but divisions in the opposition ranks made Labor's win more emphatic. Hanson helped deliver victory to the Labor Party in Queensland by a stunning margin. One Nation won a few seats in depressed, conservative rural areas that had lost faith in the National Party but were not ready...
Last week government officials finally admitted what everyone else has known for a long time: Japan is in a deflationary spiral. This is where it gets dangerous. Companies aren't investing, so they don't expand, so unemployment rises, so people put off spending, so prices decline, so people save their money because they figure things will cost less in three months or a year than they...