Word: spiralling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many others are in a financial bind partly because they are dependent on exports to the U.S. and those shipments have been slowed by the American recession. In turn, sluggish growth overseas has hurt American export industries. Two-way trade troubles have thus created a self-sustaining downward spiral that is difficult to stop...
...Allard worked the play-action to perfection. Seeming to hand off to Granger. Allard instead dropped and found Gravey slunding all alone on the left sideline as the cornerback had fallen for the lake and moved up to stop the run. Allard hit his flanker with an easy spiral, and Garvey walked in with the game's first touchdown giving Harvard a 10-0 lend with 3:39 left in the opening quarter...
...council and an arcane "prevailing wage clause" in the city charter, dating from 1925. In practice, the prevailing wage clause, requiring the city to pay its employees salaries at least equal to comparable jobs in the private sector, has become the rock-bottom minimum from which wage demands spiral upward...
Harvard took over at its own 38 after Crimson corner Chris Myers picked off an errant Dean Pecevich toss (the first of two Myers interceptions on the day). On the first play from scrimmage. Allard dropped back and found Garvey open down the right sideline. The flanker took the spiral at about the UMass 38, broke through the arms of All-American safety Grady Fuller and raced all the way into the end zone. The play went 62 yards, and after Jim Villanueva's PAT was good, Harvard had tied the game with 12:54 left in the half...
...Witkowski stepped up in the pocket, clear of the Harvard rush, he noticed tight end Dan Upperco standing alone in the center of the end zone and hit him with a perfect spiral for the final score of the day. Columbia's try for a two-point conversion failed...