Word: tailspinning
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...other indicators, mostly of the Soviet domestic variety, stock in Gorby Inc. is in a tailspin. Most devastating was the news last week that the 1988 Soviet grain harvest ranked as the worst in three years. Despite desperate efforts to reform agriculture, the harvest came in 16 million tons below the previous year and 40 million tons below 1988 targets. Pravda, meanwhile, reported that the Soviet crime rate climbed nearly 17% in the past year, and attributed the rise partly to corruption spawned by new economic freedoms...
Eventually, the Cowboys will come out of their tailspin and become a winning team again. I'm a Cowboys fan, and I certainly hope that they...
...Crimson must avoid any lingering effects of a late-season tailspin which ruined its chances of a winning season last year. Having compiled a 6-3-2 record (1-1-1 Ivy) through the first five weeks of the season, Harvard crumbled, scoring only one goal in the next week while losing to Princeton, Boston College and Brown. A loss to Yale in the final game of the season gave the team a disappointing 6-7-2 record...
...today?). In panic, the Biennale decided in 1972 to jettison the prize system and turn itself into a noncompetitive symposium built around a historical or theme show in the Italian pavilion. Racked by ideological discord and enfeebled by the organizational skills of Italian intellectuals, the Biennale went into a tailspin for a number of years...
...setbacks earlier in the week to Princeton and Boston College sent the Crimson into a tailspin, and Saturday's 1-0 loss to Brown at the Margolies Athletic Center in Providence brought the team crashing down...