Word: spiralling
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Nothing better illustrates the difficulties of the security issue than the spiral of violence and counterviolence that has whiplashed the West Bank in recent weeks. A day after a Palestinian youth was shot and killed in a schoolyard scuffle with Israeli soldiers, Arab terrorists two weeks ago opened fire on a group of Jewish settlers returning from evening prayers in the city of Hebron, killing six and wounding 16. In retaliation, Israeli commandos last week staged two coastal raids into southern Lebanon. They ambushed a Jeep carrying four commandos of the Palestine Liberation Organization and killed four civilians in another...
...inflationary spiral accelerates because people feel they must "catch up" with inflation by frequent increases in wages and prices, he added...
...council couldn't legislate away the lure of Cambridge. The universities, the neighborhoods, the ethnic mix, the culture, are all factors in a spiral that may one day prove their own downfall. A recent study by students at the Graduate School of Design, who examined every apartment building in the city, concluded that 45 per cent of the remaining rental housing stock would be converted to condominums this decade unless the government intervened. Fifty-eight per cent of those living in the apartments could not buy the units, mostly for lack of capital. And half that number would...
...have met misunderstanding and hostility from the press and the public since the movement got underway in the 1960s. The category of environmental art includes such diverse and controversial projects as Christo's "Running Fence," which stretched along miles of the California coastline, and Robert Smithson's full-sized "Spiral Jetty" in the Great Salt Lake in Utah...
...motor fuel" so that "companies would not have to pass the 50-cent fuel tax on to consumers in the form of higher prices." Companies won't have to pass on higher costs, but if they can, they will. The upshot: yet one more twist in the inflationary spiral...