Hicks and Southridge Capital were the subject of a 2002 Forbes article (see "Sinking Fund") on death spiral preferred financings that also detailed the work of Mark Valentine, former chairman of Canadian brokerage Thomson Kernaghan.
Mr. PETER KAGWANJA (Director, South Africa Program, International Crisis Group): Everything seems to be on a downward spiral, and there seems not to be any solution on the horizons.
Since that time, the IRS whistleblower program has been on a downward spiral.
Kellogg might have continued on that downward spiral if not for the Keebler deal.
South Korea's Kosdaq has cooled too (see chart), but GEM is on a worse spiral.
Soon Google users would see a spinning cartoon spiral on our homepage inviting them to try MentalPlex.
Many magazines are hurting lately, but Playboy has been on a downward spiral in readership and ads for a long time.
Just days after FTSE International promoted nine technology stocks to the FTSE 100, the City's key share index, these shares went on a downward spiral.
What is true is, is that the markets getting nervous have started making it much more expensive for them to borrow, and that then gets them on a downward spiral.
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The Gap has suffered from declining same-store sales for years, verging on the death-spiral.
More common are small-bore disputes: lawyers whose sniping, in person and on paper, can spiral out of control.
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Our playing staff would have to be cut and we might end up on a vicious downward spiral.
"We have two witnesses and evidence against him, " he said, drawing X's, O's and spiral doodles on a blank sheet of paper as he listened.
And so on and so on in an ever expanding spiral of that free speech.
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Mercer model of prank calls: Let the person in on the joke before things spiral out of control.
Turning that around and pulling the company out of its death spiral all depends on a new operating system, Blackberry 10.
In the Australian window, Richard Slaughter describes Integral Futures and Marcus Barber will talk on links between futures and spiral dynamics.
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If crises can hit us at any moment for no reason, and not because, say, governments impose self-reinforcing down-spiral accounting rules on the banks, then it is easier to believe that we should spend our time figuring out ways to mitigate the inevitable consequences rather than trying to prevent what cannot be prevented.
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He doesn't see a replacement source of higher profits on the horizon to break the spiral.
One negative experience posted on a social media channel can spiral out of control.
The performance report also details what it calls the "downward spiral of decline" on the High Street.
Management ran a fairly loose ship, letting costs spiral out of control on a number of development projects.
Some people think that she may actually be the scapegoat for Yahoo, a company well on its way down a death spiral.
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All of this has newsletters warning of the possibility that a deflationary spiral could wreak havoc on asset prices, including more sharp declines in stocks and even erosion of real estate values.
Once a nation goes on holiday, however, a downward spiral can ensue that interrupts the glide.
The country is on the brink of a vicious deflationary spiral, with falling prices swelling companies' real debts and keeping real interest rates high.
So for these communities, recovery depends on continued responsible efforts to stop the downward spiral of defaults, foreclosures, and declining home values.
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Many people raid what's left of their 401(k) in desperation to pay off the IRS. This only continues the financial death spiral since taxes will be owed on this cash as well.
Beneath the two passenger decks of this modified super jumbo is an Air Force One-style air-stair -- allowing access to the tarmac without the need for a sky-bridge or external staircase -- and a crew dining area, crew gallery, crew bathroom, sleeping quarters for eight on bunk beds, a communications room and spiral staircase leading to the main deck.
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