Word: tailspins
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nuclear family that in the movie Forrest finally gets to tend. In pumping up Jenny's role, screenwriter Eric Roth transferred all of Forrest's flaws -- and most of the excesses Americans committed in the '60s and '70s to her. Wright's Jenny is a frail soul in tailspin, a battered child in a beautiful woman's body. And Forrest is her redeemer. The suspense of the movie is whether she will allow him to save...
...such experts as these are puzzled, what are new investors to make of the tailspin? That question worries market professionals more than almost anything else. Since the 1987 crash gave way to a new boom, millions of investors have put a few thousand dollars each into the market, mostly by way of mutual funds. The great majority are getting their first bitter taste of a down market. If they panic and sell out, they could turn a downward spiral into a genuine crash...
Instead of crashing and burning, however, the plane pulled out of its tailspin and cranked up the engine. Our moment of anguish gave way as the little plane chugged onwards. Soon the sadistic pilot was at it again, tail-spinning towards earth, only to pull out of the dive at the last moment. Dave and Holly were starting to enjoy the show but I couldn't watch. Every time the plane cut its engine and began its dip, my legs twitched and I fled, helplessly, for a few yards. I was OD-ing on adrenaline. And I was beginning...
...many Russians, Victor Chernomyrdin, 55, is the only politician besides Yeltsin with the toughness, stability and integrity of character needed to pull the post-Soviet economy out of its tailspin. To Moscow's radical democrats, however, he personifies what former Finance Minister Boris Fyodorov calls the "lifeless and illiterate state-planning ideology of the red managers." To the West, Chernomyrdin appears little better than a dark horseman of Russia's impending apocalypse -- a flashback to Brezhnevite stagnation whose disdain for the most basic prescriptions of capitalism threatens to destroy reform...
...after telling industry analysts, "If the pilots were in charge, Columbus would still be in port." The turbulence is almost certain to get worse. United Airlines machinists are angry that an employee bid to buy the airline two weeks ago crashed and burned. Delta's pilots are in a tailspin, with many refusing to accept the 5% pay cut that management has proposed...