Word: spiralling
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...mystified observers who look at other indicators and see no evidence of a boom. But there is no sign of a genuine, self-sustaining recovery, and it is all too easy to see how things could get considerably worse--indeed, how Japan could plunge into a nasty deflationary spiral if consumers keep their hands in their pockets...
...they work with, who are at once disproportionately the victims of crime and its perpetrators. The great majority of hardworking, law-abiding minority residents need the police for protection, just as the police need their help to catch the bad guys. But it is a relationship that can easily spiral into mutual recrimination, triggered by a cop killing or by police brutality...
Slate says the Mass. Ave. store is busiest in September and January with the spiral-bound notebook business...
...outsiders to foment trouble. There really is a Lord of the Flies dynamic at work among kids. Even nice kids seem to spend a lot of time being cruel to their less socially prominent peers. Social science literature is filled with the gritty details--categorized under headings like "the spiral of rejection." Patti and Peter Adler, sociologists who do field research on cliques, found that a 17-year-old girl in one group they observed could raise her status by getting a boy to spend money on her and break up with another girl for her--and then dump...
...image of her seemed, for too long a moment,/To be even more real than she was herself." Searching for the deepest realm of truth, he moves into layers of representation, "the metaphor within the metaphor,/The thing itself, that very thing" and finds himself caught in a downward spiral of artifice in attempts to locate truth and the perfect language...