Word: spiralling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kinnear knew that many of Texaco's creditors and suppliers were getting jumpy and that the Supreme Court decision might cause the whole situation to spiral out of control. In an affidavit filed in a Texas appeals court, Texaco outlined in detail the pressures it was under. Chase Manhattan had demanded that Texaco maintain new minimum balances in its accounts before the bank would transfer funds to satisfy commercial obligations. Worse, Manufacturers Hanover Trust had canceled a $750 million line of credit...
...deep-rooted social problems, a new sense of community values. Reagan has done what he has done, and he has accomplished much. He presided over one of the longest periods of economic recovery in American history, a time attended by the end of inflation and of the wage-price spiral. He rolled back the writ of the Federal Government, helped to initiate tax reform, strengthened (amid some set-backs) the American posture in the world. But now one feels the ground shifting underfoot, a grinding of the tectonic plates...
Dianne chooses a costume for herself and her daughter Bridey, 9. Dianne will be Spiral Head, and Bridey will be the Summer Bird. Vicki chooses the Baby Raven for Veva Burns, Bridey's friend, who is also nine...
...prices and wages spiral out of control, business strategy is virtually paralyzed. Says Thomas Michael Lanz, director of a Sao Paulo electronic-tools company: "We are all lost. We can't plan, we can't set prices, we can't decide whether to hire or fire." Senhor, the widely read Sao Paulo-based business magazine, put an upside-down map of Brazil on its cover last week with the headline GENERAL CONFUSION...
Like all good prehistoric beasts tend to do, the Dinosaur eventually disappeared, leaving behind only fossilized traces of his natural foodstuffs, his indigenous underwear, and his characteristic drug paraphernalia. He left behind no moral lessons, no cultural conundrums worth of opination, but only a stark example of the brutal spiral of natural selection, which fortunately left him with a brain incapable of responding to the printed word. Which means I won't get nuked...