Word: spiralling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...amnesty plank, saying that it will end the negative social and economic sub-culture in which illegals are forced to exist. But in reality, it would have little effect Legalized immigrants would be ineligible for federal programs such as food stamps. Medicaid, and Aid to Dependent Children, allowing the spiral of poverty among undocumented workers to continue...
...that the consumer price index rose only a modest .4% in February, a smaller increase than in January. If rapid growth continues and prices climb, the Federal Reserve can be expected to push up interest rates. They might eventually go high enough to cause a repetition of the spiral of 1980-81, when the record cost of borrowing brought on the 1981-82 recession...
...penchant for cockeyed whimsy, which seems to be an inexpert deduction from Miro. But this hardly matters beside the strength of Surls' best work. Notably Working in the Garden, 1981, the massive root system of an oak dug from the ground, seasoned, and then equipped with a demented spiral wooden "cloud" on top - a whirling dust-devil of some sort, studded with eyes and bristling with wooden facsimiles of double-bitted axes. It is an altogether marvelous apparition, one that manages to be funny, menacing, otherworldly and stridently physical all at the same time: a master piece...
Nightline, which since last April has been the only hourlong news show on any commercial network, will be cut back to half an hour on Feb. 8, coincidentally Koppel's 44th birthday. At the hour length, ratings sagged. Says Koppel: "We were on a downward spiral." Often the show gave a topic too much time, or jumbled together unrelated segments, some of them less than urgently newsworthy. Admits Executive Producer William Lord: "By thinking larger, we diluted the focus of the show." The biggest roadblocks, however, were local ABC affiliates. When the show expanded, twelve stations dropped it outright...
Koppel spoke to executives of affiliates at a meeting in Dallas last week, and some 20 stations have pledged to pick up the new half-hour Nightline. The show's potential seems perhaps as sound as Koppel's. His view: "The spiral is going upward again...