Word: spiraling
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...1970s and '80s, the average rent grew twice as fast as the average income. Manufacturing jobs disappeared: of the 12 million new jobs created since 1979, more than half pay less than $7,000 a year, and many provide no health insurance. One serious illness, and a worker could spiral into poverty and onto the streets. Meanwhile, a 1981 change in welfare laws meant that a quarter of a million families with children lost all their public assistance, and an additional 200,000 had benefits reduced...
Mindful that the failure could unleash a spiral of protectionism, delegates from the 107 participating nations consented to a cooling-off period. They will meet in Geneva early next year in a final push to salvage something from their tiring and often tempestuous talks...
Each time our term-bills arrive, we are newly discouraged by the high expense of our education. The increasing cost of an education--which seems to us not an economic right alone--is an immoral spiral. "Immoral" is an appropriate word to describe some of Harvard's expenditures which add to our monthly nightmare...
...unemployment climbs, inflation rises and the economy lurches toward an expected slump, economists issue dire warnings about "recessionary psychology" -- a pattern of cuts in consumer spending and investment that tends to feed the downward spiral and make any economic falloff even deeper. But there is another, more profound kind of recessionary psychology. It is measured by psychic indicators rather than economic ones. As people change their behavior in the face of layoffs, cutbacks or a sudden drop in net worth, more and more Americans find themselves clinically depressed...
...even if the relationship between the two rivals is "unstable." Not so magnanimous was Grigori Yavlinsky, a young economist who helped draft the 500-Day Plan. He offered to quit on the spot, arguing that the federal government's higher prices for grain procurement would lead to an inflation spiral. Yeltsin phrased that concern more colorfully not long ago. Trying to reconcile Kremlin caution with the market zeal of the republics, he said, is like "mating a hedgehog with a snake...