• Long thin tubes, called convection zones, spiral up the inside of the cylinders, gathering nautical winds and generating electricity in the process.

    BBC: Betaville lets New Yorkers play real-world Sim City

  • Oracle's other president, company veteran Safra Catz , is tasked with Oracle's internal operations, so costs don't spiral up in a world of smaller deals and tougher sales.

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  • You will notice how the quality of your life improves, how things start to naturally come your way and while you spiral up in your consciousness, you realize that you create your life every single moment and every moment you decide what quality you want to give your life.

    FORBES: 5 Steps To Transform Your Life - Step 5

  • What should investors do to prepare for a possible new oil spiral, either up or down?

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

    NEWYORKER: Ask Me If I Care

  • The theory is relatively simple: Seawater and freshwater, filtered to remove silt, are fed into pipes which lead to a membrane system, made up of spiral coils to maximize surface area.

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  • This, allied to his dramatic omission from Glenn Hoddle's squad for the 1998 World Cup, only succeeded in speeding up the spiral of decline that finished off his career - and appears today to be putting his life in jeopardy.

    BBC: The tears and joy of Gazza

  • In a series of experiments, he found that as foods he was cooking warmed up, the spiral sides directed the flow in a concentric movement.

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  • Drizzle with a little olive oil and roll the lamb up in a spiral, seasoning the fatty side with salt and pepper as you roll.

    WSJ: Too Many Cooks in the Kitchen? Not With the Right Plan

  • Thereafter the abuser makes more demands "so the victim often feels like they haven't got any control... and it ends up in this spiral of continuous abuse", she added.

    BBC: Ceop warns over 'alarming new trend' in online sex abuse

  • Closer examination of the animals' anatomy revealed that the sea slugs had a large part of their penis coiled up in a spiral inside their bodies, which they would then use to replenish their missing part.

    BBC: Sea slug's 'disposable penis' surprises

  • They complain without understanding, and, like flies constantly banging against the same old windowpane, they buzz around, suffer, waste away, get depressed then wonder how they got caught up in this spiral that is taking them where they don't want to go.

    NPR: Excerpt: 'The Elegance Of The Hedgehog'

  • Viewers walk up the Guggenheim's spiral ramp as though it were a processional route.

    ECONOMIST: Brazilian art

  • We even get to see a (relative) close-up of a "barred spiral galaxy" (above) called NGC 1365.

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

    BBC: County schedule for 2011 delayed after disagreement

  • Unfortunately, Bernanke is out of wind-up toys that can stem our deflationary spiral.

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  • The rest of the entries are Spiral Stakes winner Black Onyx, Wood runner-up Normandy Invasion, Arkansas Derby runner-up Frac Daddy, Louisiana Derby runner-up Mylute, Falling Sky, Golden Soul and Giant Finish.

    WSJ: Derby field will be full; Pletcher with 5 starters

  • As you keep getting more new business (hopefully faster than the old regulars taper off and stop coming), you can tap your rate up again: it's an upward spiral.

    FORBES: What Does It Take To Start A Hotel?

  • The radio signals that make it show up come from electrons flowing in it as they spiral through the galactic magnetic field.

    ECONOMIST: Here be serpents

  • There was already a widely held belief that whatever Travis had cooked up to save our firm from its financial death spiral was bull.

    FORBES: Abstract

  • Thus someone needs to be buying lots of bonds in order to keep prices up and yields down, to stop this death spiral happening.

    FORBES: The Euro Rescue Isn't Going to Work

  • 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.

    WHITEHOUSE: Twitter Town Hall

  • Fuel costs are roughly one third of expenses and WTI has climbed back up to the mid-nineties per barrel so the spiral of fare increases and capacity reductions will continue making travel even less tolerable than it already is.

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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.

    FORBES: Should Your Kids Subsidize My Grandmother's Health Care?

  • Over the weekend, we were treated to a smorgasbord of self-justification from Herman Cain and Jerry Sandusky, who, as they spiral downward and hopefully out of the public eye, seem unable to just shut up.

    FORBES: When Defiance Replaced Responsibility

  • And so the sequence of how we're approaching this is as follows: Our immediate job is to stop the downward spiral, and that means putting money into consumers' pockets, it means loosening up credit, it means putting forward investments that not only employ people immediately but also lay the groundwork for long-term economic growth.

    WHITEHOUSE: Presidential Press Conference

  • Yet regulators (such as Consob, which regulates Italy's stockmarket) and sophisticated financial institutions not only failed to spot the trouble, but also let it get worse, overseeing a spiral of debt issuance and off-balance-sheet deals that allowed Parmalat to keep up its pretence.

    ECONOMIST: Parmalat

  • '' Two seconds later, just before we would have stalled and started a death spiral to earth, the jet's control stick moved forward, and the airplane began to pick up speed, averting the stall.

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  • Weak banks in peripheral countries remain vulnerable to a downward spiral in which their holdings of government bonds are downgraded and fall in value, forcing them to come up with ever more collateral to keep borrowing from the central bank.

    ECONOMIST: The ECB fills banks with funds

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