Word: spiraling
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...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...
...developed world. That's just the worst of many problems: stocks are trading at their lowest levels since the 1980s bubble economy popped; industrial production declined more than 11% in January; banks are sitting on mountains of bad debt; flaccid consumer spending has left the country in a deflationary spiral...
What sweet irony. Even as the new economy-loaded NASDAQ index continued its death spiral last week, investors gobbled up shares of Krispy Kreme Doughnuts as if cholesterol were a newfound health food. And while the tech gang was frantically dialing down its earnings estimates, Krispy Kreme announced profits that easily beat the forecasts.The stock soared to $79.19, up $6.68 in an otherwise dreadful week...
...bold move to have an unfunny, unpleasant, rather pathetic character be your focus. But Watson has a skill with making Rob's downward spiral believable. He never resorts to clumsy pathos, and even succeeds in keeping just a hint of sympathy for the poor sod. It feels right...
...nothing else, the tough loss to Clarkson on Friday was a wake-up call that the Crimson heard loud and clear. Realizing that the fate of its season hung precariously in the balance, Harvard reversed its downward spiral and propelled itself past ECAC favorite St. Lawrence...