Word: spiraling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard and Radcliffe students who leave each year to go to mental hospitals, the trip to the other side is more often a slow, sad spiral than a sudden leap. In recent interviews, nine students who have been at McLean Hospital, a large, private, Harvard-staffed institution in Belmont, talked about freaking out-why they went, where they went, and what they found...
...side house in Newport Beach, Calif., Wayne, in Clark Kent disguise, recalled his spiral career in a series of flashbacks to TIME Reporter Jay Cocks. Iowa-born kid turned U.S.C. football star,, the former Marion Morrison began in films as a part-time prop man. He fell into bottom-of-the-bill cowboy pictures and made a few better-forgotten films in civilian clothes. "They had a college picture about girls playing basketball," he recalls. "The man in charge was a little dance director. Everything he did was by the count?one, two, three, four?and then your line...
...supported by Bessemer steel interior columns and beams and faced with a breathtakingly thin curtain of glass. It was bold, light, airy-an immediate landmark. Soon after, Gropius produced another tour de force: a machine factory in Cologne whose facade was dominated by a pair of glass-sheathed spiral staircases that looked as cold and tense as ice around a coiled spring...
...purchasing power of the average U.S. worker has done no better than hold steady. Union leaders now feel that they must push for giant wage and benefit increases to keep their members ahead of price boosts. But some are aware that the raises may only give the inflationary spiral a further upward twist. Says Phil Stack, a New York Teamsters official who helped negotiate the $57.60 hike: "Every time we get a raise, the prices increase and the hospitals go up as well. Somebody should stand still. If the others stopped, I think our men would be happy to stop...
...problem is of long standing and is becoming increasingly worse due to the inflationary spiral and also forces particularly peculiar to Cambridge. A figure that must be kept constantly in mind in evaluating our present condition is that almost 85% of the housing units in Cambridge are over 40 years...