Word: spiralled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more difficult to obtain. The heyday of the U.S. middle class, and its high expectations, came in the 1950s and 1960s, when the median U.S. family income -- adjusted to today's price levels -- leaped from $14,832 in 1950 to $27,338 in 1970 (see chart). But the prosperity spiral was halted by the inflation of the 1970s, which carried prices aloft more rapidly than wages and thus caused real income levels to stagnate for more than a decade. Last year's median was only $27,735, barely an improvement from...
...rags and tissues in underwear or rubber balloons over the penis. The stigma for all is intense. From early childhood a sense of self-control is deeply connected to successful toilet training, notes Psychologist Ronald Rozensky of Illinois' Evanston Hospital. "Losing that control as adults sets up a downward spiral of helplessness, shame, guilt and withdrawal...
...support groups are emerging to counter that spiral. In the New York City area, Continence Restored arranges lectures and meetings. HIP (Help for Incontinent People), based in Union, S.C., issues newsletters and audiocassettes; HIP's mention last month in "Dear Abby" drew 90,000 inquiries. The Simon Foundation, beyond offering a newsletter, an 800 phone number and seminars, has put out a book titled Managing Incontinence and a touching, enlightening videocassette called The Solution Starts with...
...that was also a little building, like Alberto Giacometti's The Palace at 4 A.M., 1933, or a still life, like Henri Laurens's Dish with Grapes, 1918; an image of landscape, like David Smith's Australia, 1951, or for that matter a real landscape, like Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty, 1970, a quarter-mile coil of rock now sunk in Utah's Great Salt Lake...
...response of many other taxpayers to the high rates was to clamor for relief through exemptions and deductions. Presidents and Congresses obliged, starting a seemingly endless spiral: every break that benefited one group created an alleged inequity that another group could exploit to win favors for itself. But as these goodies removed more and more income from taxation, rates had to be kept high on those luckless -- or politically impotent -- souls whose earnings did not qualify for special treatment...