Word: spiralling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ranging from the National Organization for Women to the United Church of Christ filed in sympathy with CBS. The company delivered a 90-page denunciation of Turner. In a memo attached to the petition, CBS charged that if Turner were to gain control, the network would begin a "death spiral." CBS claims that Turner would burden the firm with $4.5 billion in debt...
...Vegas, whose towering, grandiose signs Writer Tom Wolfe once characterized as "Boomerang Modern" and "Flash Gordon Ming-Alert Spiral," neon has not faded. The skyline remains an electric testimony to a raw and rambunctious American spirit. With its arrival elsewhere in so many shops and galleries and trendy facades, neon, which after all is the Greek word for new, seems to have found a means of staying that way. The medium has learned to bend with changing tastes...
...process continues, the earth's rotation causes the column of rising air to spiral. Fueled by a constant supply of hot tropical air, the storm feeds on itself, generating roaring winds that swirl around its "eye." When the system reaches cooler and dryer air on land, it begins to lose force. By then, however, the storm may have released energy equivalent to that of about 9 million Hiroshima-type atom bombs...
Since 1980, the thrift industry has been struggling to pull out of a slump caused by an interest-rate spiral that peaked with a prime rate of 20.5% in 1981. Competitive pressure forced the thrifts to pay 10% or more to bring in deposits, but their income remained far below that level because it was largely dependent on old, fixed-rate loans paying interest rates...
...always looks hasty. It is heavy on the orifices: eating, coupling, defecating; the mood varies from mysterioso rhetoric to voyeurism. One moment Clemente is quoting poses from Giulio Romano's illustrations to Aretino to Indian miniatures (he spends part of each year painting near Madras); the next, copying a spiral staircase out of Mario Praz's Illustrated History of Furnishing; and after that, doing a billboard-size head of Grace Jones with skulls for teeth...