• By raising expectations about pension incomes, Mr Darling may have given the spending spiral a further upward twist.

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  • With this revenue lost, local services, at least those that survived the storms, could perish, a dangerous spiral for a rural town that has already seen much of its former population move to larger cities.

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  • And so our credit could be downgraded, interest rates could go drastically up, and it could cause a whole new spiral into a second recession, or worse.

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  • Inside, a spiral staircase swoops from a playfully designed stone floor in the lobby to the bar level of the hotel.

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  • "We were in Istanbul for the opening night of a building we recently built and while we were speaking we've been astonished by a spiral stair hanging from a building in front of us, " said Ferlito.

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  • The two-story, English walnut-lined room has five reading nooks, a work desk that can be hidden behind two sliding doors, and a spiral staircase that leads to a catwalk of books and the master bedroom.

    WSJ: A House to Look Smart In

  • First, investors are worried by the vicious spiral of a weakening economy, tottering banks and worsening government finances.

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  • They argue that Lyme, especially if left untreated, can spiral into a chronic condition characterized by neurological and fatigue symptoms.

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  • Everyone would be working quietly on a new feature they had dreamed up the day before, and then Jesse might ask for input on how the page flow should be laid out, and it would, within minutes, spiral into a discussion about where the company was actually going.

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  • Grand additions in the public spaces make a big impression, including a spiral staircase, solarium and new library, boasting a fireplace, sofas, bookshelves and game tables.

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  • Ferlito, 37, said the concept for the Stairscraper came to them while looking at a spiral staircase in Istanbul and trying to imagine it as a building.

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  • The intensity peaks within a solenoid beam are found in a spiral around the line of the beam itself, while a Bessel beam's intensity rises and falls in peaks and troughs at higher distances from the beam's line.

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  • Many magazines are hurting lately, but Playboy has been on a downward spiral in readership and ads for a long time.

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  • It's partly to break that spell, and partly because there comes a point in any spiral of decline when a line has to be drawn, that 25 of the country's leading wildlife and conservation groups have decided to pool the misery and publish a single, shocking stock-take of the British Countryside.

    BBC: Stark warning over the state of nature

  • The glider then descended in a spiral and hit the concrete and asphalt runway, and Miss Preston sustained a severe head injury.

    BBC: Glider crash site near Ashbourne

  • In fact, after nearly three years of warnings about a VC death spiral, there is a newfound confidence among the venture community.

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  • Indonesia faces, in a particularly vicious form, a downward spiral seen in Thailand and, to a lesser extent, Malaysia.

    ECONOMIST: The hopes for recovery fade

  • With the economy in a downward spiral, they couldn't find a buyer, and when the property didn't move for over a year, they were forced to pull it off the market.

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  • The design calls for around 3, 000 individual receivers arranged rather like a spiral galaxy, with most of the telescopes concentrated in an inner core, and the rest arranged into a set of arms up to 3, 000km (about 2, 000 miles) long.

    ECONOMIST: The Square Kilometre Array

  • "Kuwait has taken something of a downward spiral, " said Farah al-Nakib, a young U.S.-educated woman who wouldn't be caught dead in a veil.

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  • " He adds a bit later: "That we live in a large spiral galaxy with very little central stellar bulge and a modest central black hole may be a clue to the type of galaxies best suited to life: ones that did not spend their pasts building colossal black holes and fighting the demons unleashed in the process.

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  • And this education continued throughout his life, though there came a time when the blue spiral notebook was supplanted by a tape recorder.

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  • Now the gradual upward spiral in prices and credit availability becomes a rapid downward spiral in prices and credit availability as banks quickly tighten lending standards to avoid even more credit defaults.

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  • Nobody is yet suggesting America is suffering from deflation, which can trigger a downward spiral of falling prices, shrinking demand and financial distress: a vicious circle America last experienced in the 1930s depression.

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  • Back then, he carried a spiral notebook filled with plain language definitions to Microsoft corporate speak.

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  • This set off a spiral of falling bond prices, weakening banks and slowing growth.

    ECONOMIST: The causes

  • Investors suspect that, like Greece, Spain is trapped in a spiral of decline with 25% unemployed.

    BBC: Spain's euro woes: Crisis deepens

  • When Lou leads Bennie up a spiral staircase to his recording studio, I tag along.

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  • After qualifying for low German interest rates overnight, citizens entered a spiral of private debt.

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  • "It has become a spiral of escalation that nobody is able to stop, " he said.

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