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...case of posthurricane depression? A literal-minded reader could argue that. But Humphreys puts the ill wind to figurative and far better uses. A white piano partially sunk in the marsh, a detached spiral staircase coiled against the horizon suggest fresh ways of seeing...
...bureaucratic allies won a 27 billion- ruble, or 37%, increase in the defense budget. At the same time, the government's budget deficit for the first three months of 1991 reached 26.9 billion rubles -- its highest quarterly loss ever -- and the country's total production fell 9%. The downward spiral is picking up speed, and some Western experts predict that the defense budget will be cut by a third over the next four years...
Like other psychoactive drugs, The Crimson sucks the unwary into a degenerate spiral of self-destructive behavior. The similarity is uncanny: You start out writing for The Crimson because it's cool, because your friends are doing it and because you get a kick...
Until St. Nevercome's Day, "that day when goodness will pay," the NCAA should be content to stop the athletic expenditure spiral. Educational programs, not athletic programs, should reap the benefits of big-money sports...
...warn other restive republics to draw back from demands for sovereignty -- before the troops arrive there too. Some in the West were beginning to divine a different message: a betrayal of their investment in Gorbachev's leadership. Even his well-wishers fear Gorbachev has embarked on an accelerating downward spiral...