Word: spiralling
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...that John F. Kennedy was not really hos tile to business after all. And by crushing steel in the name of economic stability, Kennedy had deprived himself of a perfect rationale for any future inflation. As it is, Kennedy's own governmental spending may well create an inflationary spiral. And whomever or whatever Kennedy blames for that, it certainly cannot be Roger Blough...
...thirties a half century of construction in reinforced concrete had dissipated public resistance to the new forms. Nervi's stadium with its famous external, spiral staircases reached an audience increasingly enthusiastic about the new substance and won him immediate acclaim...
...spiral stairs represent an excellent example of the intimate relation between structure and form conceived by Nervi. Their immediate purpose, Nervi explained, was to prevent the logjams which inevitably occurred when masses of spectators crowded into the traditional interior tunnels. Their construction delayed the completion of the Stadium, yet in finished form they not only solved the problem of crowding, but were immediately recognizable even to the untrained eye as purely aesthetic triumphs...
...constructing the spiral stairs that Nervi first hindered by the rigidity which an interior timber formwork imposed on reinforced concrete. The next twelve years witnessed Nervi's various modifications of the skeleton of reinforced concrete and "in retrospect' strikingly continuous progression toward ferro-cement...
...trail ahead of us in the arms race and dangerous," Rusk said, it necessary to seek steps "to this spiral down." Therefore, the will use this conference to try to disarmament "out of an exchange of he said...