Word: tailspinning
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Duquette. Though the Duke brought superstars Pedro Martinez and Manny Ramirez to the Sox, Duquette proved he has no sense of team chemistry by publicly taking the side of outfielder Carl Everett in conflicts with the manager. The Sox need a fresh start after this year’s tailspin, and it cannot be done with Duquette at the helm...
...Because make no mistake, the airline industry - saddled with high labor costs, low profit margins, and nose-deep in debt from a continuous price war over routes and market share - was in a tailspin long before the towers fell. Some carriers were already sliding into bankruptcy, and with the rest trying to buy the routes of the ones that were failing, consolidation was already coming as fast as regulators would let it. The post-Sept. 11 edge-of-the-table descent to an 80-percent-tops-capacity industry - one in which costs only fall to 90 percent, thanks to union...
...actual story is much more tragic. The loss to Princeton completely reversed the Crimson's luck, as Harvard went on the road the next two weekends and dropped four in a row. After that tailspin, it took wins over Cornell and Columbia in Harvard's final two games of the season just to salvage a .500 league record...
...slaughter of tens of thousands of animals that might have been exposed. Across Europe, traffic backed up for inspection and disinfection at border posts left idle and untended for years. Most of the world banned meat from the European Union, sending already struggling farm businesses into an economic tailspin...
Having been stuck in a depressive tailspin since their snubbing by Alan Greenspan and the Fed on Tuesday, the stock markets are desperate for one of two things: Some good news about corporate earnings, or some bad news about the economy - bad enough to force Greenspan to jump into rate-cutting with both feet...