Word: spiralling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wide-angle view is grim. A decade of bungled opportunities and misguided investments has left Apple in an intractable negative spiral: lower market share means fewer developers, which means less software, which means fewer customers, which means still lower market share. Not pretty. Even the belated decision to license the Mac OS to clonemakers only drained Apple of hardware revenue...
...government reports record low unemployment. On CNBC economist Stephen Roach at Morgan Stanley declares that everyone who wants a job has one. He expects an inflationary spiral in wages...
...sizes of the structures within the brain. But this latest finding should help researchers understand exactly what goes wrong when the brain is overwhelmed by hopelessness and, perhaps one day, help prevent the millions of Americans who may have inherited a propensity to depression from falling into the downward spiral of despair...
...anticipating a 20 percent drop in 1997 revenues to $8 billion, according to the Wall Street Journal. If Apple carries out the cuts, they would comprise the second massive restructuring in two years for the company, which eliminated 1,500 workers last year. "Apple is caught in a dangerous spiral of having to lay off people because they're not selling enough computers," notes TIME San Francisco Bureau Chief David Jackson, "but news about the problems at the company then scares people off from buying their computers." Wall Street reacted cautiously to the news, with Apple stock finishing down 5/16...
...Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) 176: "Visual Mathematics," students use everything from the latest multi-media software to metal compasses to discover concepts of symmetry and spiral design...