Word: spiralling
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...grade spiral is by no means confined to Harvard. In fact, stories coming from other campuses of late make this University's grade inflation seem quite tame by comparison...
...proposed congressional spending plans. Combined with the tax cut, they could produce a hair-curling federal budget deficit of $100 billion or more for the next fiscal year (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS). Ford said that any such deficit would be "too dangerous to permit," since it would "threaten another vicious spiral of runaway double-digit inflation." He vowed to resist any attempt by Congress to pass spending programs that would produce a deficit any higher than $60 billion...
...play is supposed to open on a spiral gallery to give (according to Artaud) the illusion of depth and height create a rhythm of shadows that herald us into a mystical worlds, and destroy all sense of perspective. It is doubtful if any construction could fulfill all these expectations, but the side balcony used here only makes the seen hard...
...where there is any side for many of us in that argument. Anyone who is worthy of having read an economics book knows that our problem is inflation, and you can't be diverted to fighting recession unless you're willing to go back on the spiral of inflation...
...Over her massive hearth is a big neon CHER. Her social life strikes many as excessive. "Nobody in this town lives like that anymore," sniffs an anonymous critic who was not too proud to accept the invitation. "Four hundred guests assembled, and Cher making a sweeping entrance down a spiral staircase-it's out of the great glamorous '20s." New Friend Allman, a down-home type with fairly primitive views on relations between the sexes, may make a more telling comment on the state of Cher's liberation when he says, "She's weak just where...