Word: spiralling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...firm's Atlantis condominium, an apartment tower with a bright blue grid on one side. Twelve stories up, a huge hole has been cut into the slab. The open-air décor of this "sky court" features a swaying palm tree, a curved yellow wall, a red spiral staircase and a blue whirlpool...
...country was forced to replace as much as $20 billion in military equipment. After taking office in 1977, Begin attempted to spark the economy by allowing each Israeli the right to hold up to $3,000 in foreign currency. The nation embarked on a spending splurge, causing inflation to spiral. In 1979, the rate broke...
...classic pattern. At one end of society are the rich, whose money buys them opportunities and whose opportunities bring them more money. At the other are the poor, caught in a downward spiral in which nothing, it seems, can come of nothing. College graduate and illiterate cannot find a common language, high liver and low achiever cannot see eye to eye. The northerners scoff at the warm passions and expansiveness of their compatriots to the south, the southerners scorn the icy rationalism and inhibitions of their countrymen to the north...
...member executive board. The plan calls for Argentine workers to receive 6% to 8% wage hikes this year on top of whatever increases they need to keep pace with inflation. IMF economists have argued that such a policy could cause Argentina's 568% inflation rate to spiral even higher. But Alfonsín hopes that the IMF board, which is controlled by the governments of the major industrial countries, will be sympathetic to the political plight of Argentina's six-month-old democratic regime...
...book, however, as Woodward starts detailing the efforts of Belushi's wife and friends to get him to stop his binges, the lack of analysis by the author detracts from the power of the story. Woodward wants to show why they were unable to stop the downward spiral, but he leaves us wondering instead if it was lack of will on Belushi's part, on his friends' part, or simply the hyper-intensive. Hollywood scene that...