Now its newly installed boss, Akio Toyoda, the 53-year-old grandson of the founder, says that the firm could be locked in a spiral of decline.

丰田公司创始人的长孙丰田章男在53岁时接任社长，但他表示公司可能会被困在下跌的漩涡中。

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To be sure, with the economy gradually finding a bottom and the rate of decline in home prices slowing, the chances of a downward spiral of deflation and economic activity have diminished.

毫无疑问，随着经济逐渐触底，国内衰退速度减缓，通货紧缩和经济活动的螺旋式下降发生的可能性越来越小。

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Since the 1980s, the area has undergone rapid deindustrialization as the steel mills closed and set in motion a downward spiral of economic decline resulting in a series of social problems .

从1980年代起，区域己经经受快捷解除工业化，当钢厂关闭和把运动嵌入一经济衰退的向下螺线结果是一系列的社会的问题时。

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

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Is the German medicine of austerity and structural reforms working, or is it locking countries into a spiral of decline?

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"I am fearful that competition, if it does not have conditions imposed, will soon begin a spiral of decline in Royal Mail that will be very difficult to staunch, " she warned.

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