Word: spiraling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Over a period of eight or nine years, he pointed out, prices have shot up an average of 72 percent. During that time--1940 until now--Radcliffe costs have gone up 36 percent, or only half the average spiral...
...before anyone foresaw the heights inflation would reach, the government signed a contract with the All India Railwaymen's Federation. It included a cost-of-living allowance pegged to rising prices. The government argued later that it could not keep the contract without contributing to the disastrous price spiral. The railway federation, dominated by Jai Prakash Narain's Socialist Party, screamed that it had been betrayed. In December its 350,000 members voted to strike on March...
...Hills of Buda. U.S.-Hungarian relations deteriorated in a rapid spiral. First, the Hungarian government "requested" Robin Steussy, third secretary of the U.S. legation in Budapest, to leave the country, after charging him with helping Hungarians to escape into Austria...
...shaped. Then in the process of working it out I made a fission, a break in it. There's a lot of destruction going on all through the picture-the phosphorescence of decay-but I think the emphasis is on construction. Compositionally the figures and the smoke all spiral toward the building being done...
...Eying profits, many a consumer asked whether industry had done its share to keep prices and inflation down. Many a company had not. Said Commerce Secretary Charles Sawyer: "In some cases, price increases have been more than necessary to cover costs, and have contributed to the inflationary spiral...