Word: tailspinning
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...going away.Final Score: Notre Dame 31, Tennessee 10Arizona State (-2.5) at Washington StateThe Sun Devils are badly underrated at this point. This is a team that had USC on the ropes, had LSU within a down of victory, and crushed a pretty good Northwestern squad.Arizona State went into a tailspin after the USC loss, dropping three straight. But the Sun Devils are much better than the 4-4 record that they possess.With their bowl hopes on the line, Arizona State will come through with the victory.Final Score: Arizona State 35, Washington State 24Wisconsin (+10.5) at Penn StateThe Badgers...
...cutting U.S. dependence on the volatile Middle East. And they have some radical ideas about how to do it. "We live in a world in which a terrorist attack in the Middle East could push oil well over $100 a barrel and send the world economy into a tailspin," says former CIA Director James Woolsey, now a vice president at consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton. One organization he belongs to, the Energy Future Coalition, shot off a letter last month to Pete Domenici, chairman of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, calling for a federal investment in alternative...
...inflation--at 3%, about par for a growing economy--is actually worse than it appears. That isn't widely understood by the millionaires on Wall Street, who were shocked--shocked!--to learn that life is getting more expensive and sent stocks into a brief tailspin. But most of us have been dealing with stealth inflation for a couple of years...
Infact, Marcos first floated the possibility of early presidential elections at a K.B.L. meeting last August. At the time, the Philippine economy, now described by Filipino economic experts as a "basket case," was already in a severe tailspin. Foreign debt had reached $26 billion, gross national product was shrinking at an annual rate of about 5%, and underemployment was estimated to be 40%. An opinion poll taken by a private think tank with ties to the Roman Catholic Church, however, showed that 44% of the population was willing to credit Marcos and his ruling party with doing a good...
...world financial markets hinge so dramatically on the Treasury Secretary’s words that extreme caution is necessary whenever the public or the press is within earshot, according to Murray. One wrong word could send the dollar into a tailspin or destroy a foreign economy. Paul O’Neill, for example, Summers’ successor at the Treasury, single-handedly caused the collapse of the Brazilian real when he said the country needed to guarantee that aid money “doesn’t just go out of the country to Swiss bank accounts...