Word: tailspinning
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...sweeping telecommunications reform bill expected to pass today -- backed provisions sponsored by Sen. James Exon (D-Neb.), who peppered a floor speech with references to "disgusting" pictures and material culled from the Internet this week. Exon's amendment, whose victory has sent free-speech advocates into a tailspin, would impose fines of up to $100,000 and prison terms of up to two years forknowingly transmitting"obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy or indecent" pictures or comments over electronic networks accessible to anyone under 18. (Another proposal to send cable operators to jail for carrying explicit material failed at the last minute...
...each new level of military repression only accelerates the radicalization of Islamic sympathizers. Now the three-year campaign of assassination and sabotage between government and guerrillas has risen to the point where the lives of up to 1,000 victims are snuffed out every week. Together with an economic tailspin that has reduced the gross domestic product 8%, the violence has ushered in a profound social and political paralysis from which it seems all but impossible to break free...
...from publicly criticizing their successors, and telephoned a popular pro-government news program to issue an emotional appeal. Saying nothing about his brother, he denounced the Zedillo government for the ``errors of December,'' an unmistakable reference to his successor's disastrous peso devaluation, which sent the economy into a tailspin. While Salinas' statement transfixed Mexicans with its breach of political decorum, it did little to restore the reputation of the former President...
Before his eyes, a State Police helicopter, locked in a tailspin, lurched to one side and smashed onto the roof of the two-story Harvard Yacht Club building, killing the two state police officers and two American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T) employees on board...
...world where international investment money can cross borders with a few taps on a computer keyboard, a thunder of key taps arose from the offices of stunned investment-fund managers in New York City and other financial centers. As they swiftly dumped Mexican securities, the peso went into a tailspin, at the worst point losing 40% of its value. Within nine days of the start of the crisis, as much as $8 billion -- 12% of Mexico's total foreign investment -- may have fled the country...