Word: spiraling
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...Israel's army, military intelligence and domestic intelligence service were pushing for a tougher response after the shooting deaths of three Israeli soldiers on Wednesday. Their plan, vetoed by Barak, included risky, lightning strikes into Palestinian villages by undercover forces dressed as Arabs. Arafat feared that the conflict would spiral into a full-scale war. Sources close to Arafat say he made contingency plans to flee to Yemen or Iraq if Israel tried to retake the Gaza Strip. He knows that his 34,000 lightly armed paramilitaries can't stand up to a real onslaught from Israel, which has standing...
...citizens are treating the Florida ballot dispute like a constitutional crisis on the scale of Seven Days in May. Former Secretary of State James Baker, the solemn, senior aide to the Bush camp, says, "Our process is at risk," and we are "on the cusp of having this thing spiral out of control." Bush's strategy chief, Karl Rove, makes a legal battle sound like a civil war. Even a non-alarmist like CNN's Jeff Greenfield likened our democracy to a beautiful antique car sliding over a cliff...
Requiem For a Dream, the latest film effort from Darren Aronofsky '91, might be most effective if it were screened at an ADDICTS anonymous meetings or shown to recovering alcoholics. It is a movie about addiction, but also about the despair that people spiral into by trying to pursue their DREAMS through escaping reality...
Cool details abound. There's the spiral staircase, the skybridge, a stone hearth for fireside evenings, and the Spiderman-esque fire pole and ladders. But the inn's literal topper is the Eagle's Nest, a glass-enclosed octagon that offers a 360[degree] view of ocean, trees...
...health-care coverage to all uninsured children. (That's on top of $344 billion in new spending for education, the environment, defense and other programs.) And the real cost of the new entitlements could be far higher than Gore claims. The cost of his prescription-drug benefit could easily spiral over the next 10 years, and it's sure to spike in coming decades as the baby boomers enjoy their dotage. If everyone who qualifies for his subsidized savings accounts signs on for them, the program could consume $600 billion in the next decade - three times what Gore assumes...