Word: spiralling
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...likely to endure again if it does not escape from home. The screening room file cabinets are filled with case histories: babies with cigarette burns on their tongues; small children whose backs have been scarred with human bite marks; innumerable children with the classic child-abuse injury: the telltale "spiral fracture," a twisting, lightning-shaped bone break caused by extreme twisting of a spindly arm. But having invoked the memory of such things. Belisle gets a measure of relief by correcting the statistical record. "Those are the most dramatic cases," he adds. "Mostly we get kids with bruises whose parents...
Certainly Carter did not start the spiral. The blame for that is ingloriously bipartisan. The bulge began when Lyndon Johnson in 1966 failed to level with American people about the true costs of the Viet Nam War and refused to recommend an income tax increase. So the nation plunged deeply into deficit, and inflation roared from little more than 1% in the mid-'60s to 4.2% in 1968. Richard Nixon grossly worsened a bad situation by also using deficit spending and then clamping on controls; prices soared after they were lifted rising...
...give the President some time and space to do what needs to be done: cut the bloat in the budget, reduce costly regulation, encourage the Federal Reserve Board to let the money supply grow only slowly and steadily. That, and only that, can slow the price spiral...
Terry Trusty--subbing for the ill Fred Cordova--picked off a Princeton aerial with 13 seconds to go, followed 10 seconds later by a Steve Rowles pick-off of a Brown spiral...
...fourth-quarter Princeton drive died when split end Ed Arlin dropped a pass on the numbers in the endzone and Steve Potysman cradled an errant Reynolds spiral into his gut four plays later...