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...Banks are offering us loans even without our asking," says Wu. That money will have to be repaid. Letting extra capacity sit idle is no option. If the economy cools down and demand drops, "all that excess steel could hit world markets and send prices into a death spiral," says Brian Levich, senior steel analyst at the London-based Metal Bulletin Research...
...years ago, ex-Pavement guitarist Spiral Stairs released All This Sounds Gas, a wonderfully post-indie record that was equal parts Neil Young and early U2. Comprised of shaky-yet-deeply-felt lyrics and guitar lines that lazily pointed at the sky without ever gathering the momentum to soar, the music lodged in the brain despite its modest ambitions...
Early in his tour around the bleak world of low-paying jobs, David Shipler describes a kind of domino model of a downward economic spiral. "A rundown apartment can exacerbate a child's asthma, which leads to a call for an ambulance, which generates a medical bill that cannot be paid, which ruins a credit record, which hikes the interest rate on an auto loan, which forces the purchase of an unreliable used car, which jeopardizes a mother's punctuality at work, which limits her promotions and earning capacity, which confines her to poor housing." Which exacerbates the asthma...
...think pretty consistently since we started our downward spiral our defense is the first thing that went,” Delaney-Smith said. “We picked up full [court defense] to sort of reemphasize that it’s all about defense. We’re not really trying to steal the ball or do anything in the backcourt. We’re just trying to emphasize defense...
...students has led Harvard to create an assembly-line approach to therapy. Students are quickly ushered in, and sometimes nudged out, of getting care. Some patients are cared for by multiple clinicians who do not communicate with each other—allowing some students’ conditions to spiral out of control as they fall between the cracks of the system...