Word: tailspins
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...should probably give ole Buddy the benefit of the doubt. Maybe he can lift Louisiana out of its economic tailspin. Maybe he can fund the schools so that half the students do not drop out. Maybe he can bring Louisiana's social legislation into the 20th century, and maybe he can do it before we enter the 21st...
...time I got home I was depressed. My favorite primetime TV show, "Family of Bubble-heads," was preempted by a base ball game, which was bad enough, but the announcer kept on making statements like, "The score is four to one...but who cares? The economy is in a tailspin...
...thus encourage U.S. exports. But he felt his pleas were falling on deaf ears. On Sept. 18, the Treasury Secretary warned that if West Germany and Japan refused to take steps to expand their economies, the dollar would have to depreciate further. His threat started the latest U.S. currency tailspin. Within 24 hours the dollar for the first time in more than five years traded for less than two West German deutsche marks...
...often the case with the instinctively monogamous, my interest in Harvard women varied inversely with the state of my relationship with Tina. In November it looked like a permanent tailspin, and I began to take the fall for a femme on the fifth floor of my entry, coincidentally also named Christina. Nicknamed the "Ice Queen" by one of my friends, she ignored every advance I threw her way for some weeks. Finally she took pity on me and patiently explained that her heart belonged to another back in the Old Country, and even though I was charming and sweet...
...maneuvering continued. People Express Chairman Donald Burr later said the parent company had canvassed "every other available alternative," including the possible sale of Frontier to other parties. Eventually, rumors began to grow that Newark-based People, which only five years ago threw the entire passenger-airline industry into a tailspin, might itself be quietly on the backroom auction block...