Word: spiraling
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...Although the latter may seem a nobler cause, the need to solicit funds would be no less corrupting. The enforcement provisions are incomplete: Once one campaign violates the deal, the other would be allowed to respond "proportionately," a phrase that seems likely to send the campaigns careening into a spiral of escalating counter-spending and accusations...
Conversely, Herbert Hoover was a gleamingly successful citizen right up until the fall of 1929, when his reputation followed the economy downward in a disastrous spiral. And so on. The presidency retains a mystique of transformation. The office is still a variation on the American theme of new beginnings. Americans might actually find it attractive if George W. Bush's only accomplishment by age 40 had been to quit drinking...
Conversely, Herbert Hoover was a gleamingly successful citizen right up until the fall of 1929, when his reputation followed the economy downward in a disastrous spiral...
...Clark, offered this speculation to a Philadelphia TV station: "I think she started off with the idea that she wanted to place prospective parents with their adoptive children. Obviously at some point she was unable to fill the commitment that she was making, and from there things started to spiral downwards...
...parents recently to say I was thinking about putting them in a nursing home. "But I'm only 58," my mother said. "We're healthy." Not to be critical, but my parents are the sort of optimists who bought a retirement home with a second floor. And a spiral staircase. And low-wattage lighting on the landing."It's a death trap," I said. "We like our house," my mother said. That's just like them. And, it turns out, just like the rest of America...