Word: tailspinning
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...jobs over the past eight years. The 555-seat, double-decker A380 is not just another airplane. It is one of those bet-the-company ventures, so beloved by the airline industry, which either succeed spectacularly - as the Boeing 747 did - or risk sending the whole firm into a tailspin. Mechanically at least, the A380 works: Airbus has been conducting successful test flights for over a year. Horstmann, the Munich bank analyst, reckons there's an 80% chance that Airbus will be able to work through this crisis and bounce back in a couple of years. "But there...
...record and sprinted to four wins in its first five Ivy games. But after squandering a six-point lead in the final minute against Princeton on Feb. 10–a game the Tigers won on a Noah Savage buzzer beater–the Crimson went into a tailspin, losing its next six games and surrendering its title hopes...
...tournament since 1946. Those dreams, however, faded into bitter memory with an eight-game league losing streak late in the season that transformed Harvard from title challengers into a team struggling to avoid the Ivy basement. After a pair of emotionally jarring last-minute defeats, Harvard fell into a tailspin, losing its shot at history along with the chance for its first winning record in four years. The Crimson finished the season at 13-14 overall and sixth in the Ivy League with a 5-9 mark, seven games behind champion Penn.“What [the team] experienced...
...hates the UC.”The grotesque irony of the entire ordeal, which a few UC represenatives realized a few days after the meeting, was that Greenfield’s empty constitutional amendment—the one that sent the council into a parliamentary tailspin in the first place—never attained the required 37-vote threshold required for a constitutional amendment. When the council voted on 62.35, the constitution still had its “one-half” clause intact. And so next Sunday’s council meeting promises another round...
...that science hasn’t always made me want to slam my head against a wall, that I once harbored dreams of a career in public health, that I am not a complete moron. But while in high school a failed exam would have sent me into a tailspin of shame and despair, four years of good training in self-righteousness and entitlement at Harvard have taught me instead to reach for a beer and a pen in indignation...