Cantor descended a narrow spiral staircase at the end of the hallway outside his office.

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In the end, the death spiral for Microsoft is in full effect, and management is expending a lot of effort to speed it up.

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Our playing staff would have to be cut and we might end up on a vicious downward spiral.

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When they hit the electric field at the end of the cylinder, they bounce off it, spiral back towards the entrance, where they run into matter, and annihilate.

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Consequently, insurers will have to raise premiums for the entire pool to offset these shifts, creating an adverse selection spiral in which both younger and older people remaining in the pool end up with higher premiums than if regulators had not intervened in the market in the first place.

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The Appeal Court's decision that Junior Bayode, who was found guilty of manslaughter, will not face a retrial for murder marks the end of a prosecution that revealed how tensions between youths could spiral out of control in the heart of the capital.

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You enter by walking into a thatched roof pavilion at the end of an otherwise innocuous but beautiful pier, and then descend a spiral staircase.

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By the end of the decade, owners had figured out a way to curtail the upward spiral of signing bonuses.

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