Frail and weedlike, a single vine spiraling up a structure can be ugly and tempting to rip down.

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For the past couple of years, business was getting tougher and more competitive, traffic was getting worse, and the cost of living was spiraling up.

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The speed of attack and response is spiraling up.

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Introducing the scene is a whispered harp-celesta fragment of the film's Prelude, spiraling into a close-up of Judy in the beauty parlor as she is being made up to look like Madeline.

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"I was spiraling down, " she said, choking up.

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And our success will also require controlling spiraling health care costs that are bankrupting families, and crushing businesses, and driving up skyrocketing deficits.

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