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Word: spiralling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...argued that taxes had to be raised to pay for the Viet Nam War, but Johnson would not hear of it. He later changed his mind and signed a tax-increase bill in 1968, but the delay was a costly mistake. Many economists believe it helped unleash the inflationary spiral that U.S. policymakers have been battling ever since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cheers for a Banner Year | 1/2/1984 | See Source »

...Wellman Twins," the twins Bluey and Greer have shared a game since childhood, called "getting bold." It is supposed to be a private covenant for a session of secrets and truth-telling, but they use the opportunity to regale each other with outrageous lies--tall tales which gradually spiral down to a compact center of truth. Bluey has been writing letters to a girl named Ivy, and hiding them in loose leaf binder. His sister Greer begins getting bold by revealing that she has read all the letters. Bluey responds that "Ivy's probably got maybe a brain tumor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Night Travels | 11/30/1983 | See Source »

...advantages of fabricating specialized terrestrial materials (crystals, alloys, ceramics) in conditions of weightlessness rather than on earth. There are also studies to see how humble forms of life adapt to space. For example, one inquiry will seek to learn whether sunflowers really need gravity to grow in their characteristically spiral patterns. Indeed, the flight's experimental agenda, involving the work of more than a hundred scientists, is so crowded that "science itself has become the reason for doing this mission," says Spacelab I Mission Scientist Rick Chappell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: A Giant Workshop in the Sky | 11/28/1983 | See Source »

...toll taken by the strong dollar has been heavy. Some economists believe it has been responsible for the loss of more than 1 million American jobs. Europeans complain that it could cause their prices to spiral upward. Cash-starved developing nations argue that an overvalued dollar undermines their ability to repay huge foreign debts. When world moneymen gathered in Washington last week for the annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank (see box), some financiers feared that the dollar had become a barrier to recovery around the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Too Big a Bang for the Buck | 10/10/1983 | See Source »

...invaders had made a bonfire, enjoyed it for a time, then doused it. A puddle still trickled from the center of the pyre: a transparent spiral of vapor curled out of its flank. The dead books reeked of ruin, flame, animal hides, a fetid steaminess. In the streets creatures like centaurs scuttled and scrabbled, flinging their rods, sticks, rocks, poles, Metamorphosis and shock...

Author: By David B. Pollack, | Title: Faith in Knowledge | 10/7/1983 | See Source »

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