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We were in disbelief. It just kept spiraling down and it was hard to stay focused.

Carolyn Kieger

Alcohol and unprotected sex seem to spiral together. Unless you use your head when making these decisions, the more trouble you're going to get into.

Fritz Wentzel

There's only one place to go when you're up top and that's down. We just didn't want to continue that downward spiral.

George Braun

It shouldn't cost people money to do their job. We're trying to catch up with the spiraling cost of gas.

Joseph Garcia

The halos exist, but are so faint that an extremely sensitive telescope such as Chandra is needed to detect them. Our observations solve the mystery of the missing hot halos around spiral galaxies.

Kristian Pedersen

Health care costs are spiraling out of control. They're pushing many companies toward bankruptcy. We all have a responsibility to cure the health care industry; to take control of these wildly escalating costs.

Chris Holt

If they have to lose their job and also face severe uncertainty of their asset value, then the combination of the two would be very negative for consumer sentiment. We would see a very severe spiral, a vicious spiral. So I'm very concerned about this possibility.

Yasushi Okada

One of the biggest problems I see are dogs who don't have a lot of emotional control and frustration tolerance. If dogs are going to live in our houses as family members, they need to learn how to physiologically handle spiraling emotions, not react like a 2-year-old who drops an ice-cream cone.

Patricia Mcconnell

It is quite clear that our current global efforts remain inadequate for an epidemic that is continuing to spiral out of control.

Peter Piot

It's almost like we're at a crossroads. We can work together to save all of this -- or we can hit the tipping point and it can become a downward spiral.

Robert Ramming

We got off to a rough start in New York where I wasn't playing too much. Going to Washington I was having fun playing hockey again but got hurt. I got traded to L.A. and everything was a downward spiral.

Anson Carter

This is a campaign that is spiraling downward by the minute.

Jim Dornan

Until it has neared insolvency, the board could definitely consider what would happen in terms of a spiral effect if they lowered the dividend.

Mark Bane

There is no need to hide the reality from the world. Unless something is done urgently, the situation will most certainly spiral out of control.

Farid Abdulkadir

The 2006 budget crisis is looming, provoked by the fiscal policies of the Bush Cheney Regime, ... The Vortex of Bushonomics, The Downward Spiral & The Coming 2006 Budget Crisis.

Al Martin

We're about halfway there. The future is bright. We will continue to spiral up.

Harry Alford

We can't pass the costs along. We can't control the market. We don't really have any place to go if wages spiral out of control.

Luawanna Hallstrom

The only way we can get out of this spiral is to bring new gas to the UK.

Mark Clare

We call this process the Death Spiral.

Carl B. Weinberg

Our message is simply: that we should try and get out of the present downward spiral.

Karan Singh

The potential consolidation between the two towns in Orleans County may be the state's first step back to the future. This is the only way we can beat the economic death spiral gripping us all.

Kevin Gaughan

Woodside has proven supplies of gas and a proven record of safe delivery. We intend to provide a reliable supply of natural gas to curb the spiraling rise in prices. California deserves affordable energy; we can help ensure that happens.

Jane Cutler

We've got to stop a wage-price spiral coming after the oil price shock. But so far we haven't seen such second-round effects.

Otmar Issing

The measurements are based on the Golden Spiral.

Steve Mann

No other protein investigated so far, with regard to their elasticity, revealed such a behavior. When excessive forces are applied [to] the spiral's structure, it may break down and the individual repeats may unfold. However, when the external force is released, the repeats will re-fold immediately and recreate the spiral, and thus fully recover their elastic properties.

Piotr Marszalek

These two just ripped down the Spiral Stairs. They both skied great in one of the closest duals of the day.

Kirk Rawles

I want to believe that with the signing of this agreement today, Liberia will never be plunged into another spiral of violence in the quest for political power, or under the false pretense of liberating the people.

Abdulsalami Abubakar

This energy crisis will not spiral out of control or be brought under control by what happens to the Snake River dams.

Scott Bosse

We are striving to increase productivity to fight spiraling dollar costs.

Mauricio Botelho

Too many of us have been through the downturn so consequently we're saying that if this takes another downward spiral and we're left with large debt, where are we going to be? We're cautiously optimistic.

Jim Wildemann

The kids are completely kept away from Daddy's unfortunate spiral.

Danny Bonaduce

The newly reported spiral is in a class by itself.

Mark Showalter

Physical improvements are needed everywhere in this town. I just don't know where that spiral would stop.

Gary Compton

We got sloppy at times, but picked it up and didn't let ourselves spiral downward. The team has been working on combinations and communication, which has helped us a lot.

Christine Alford

We have never seen anything like this before. There are spiral structures in the rings, there are gravity and density waves, but they are completely different things.

Carolyn Porco

Just one day after arrival, we are already experiencing the hot, dynamic environment of Venus. We will see much more detail at an unprecedented level as we get over 100 times better resolution as we get closer to Venus, and we expect to see these spiral structures evolve very quickly.

Hakan Svedhem

[Observers feel the magazine's spiraling problems mirror a central struggle within hip hop itself.] The roots of the music are very 'street', ... But that has to get along with its newer role, which is very big business.

Minya Oh

It's clear that the relationship is bi-directional. It's an upward spiral.

Sonja Lyubomirsky

This seems to be the law of progress in everything we do; it moves along a spiral rather than a perpendicular; we seem to be actually going out of the way, and yet it turns out that we were really moving upward all the time.

Frances E. Willard

Aaron wasn't happy with his form anyway so he was in a bit of a downward spiral.

Peter Rohde

If you drop it below your waist, it's going to be a flatter kick, but if you drop it higher, it will more likely come off of that at a higher angle, ... It's kind of difficult with the drop to get good timing and put it on foot properly. If you don't, then it won't come off with a spiral or with enough force or velocity.

Chris Wright

I don't know if guidance is going to get much lower for AOL, but it still looks like it's kind of in a death spiral, ... If things are still deteriorating at AOL by late this summer, people are going to wonder whether or not Parsons can fix it as well.

George Gilbert

Not only has the Iraqi government failed to provide minimal protection for its citizens, it has actively pursued a policy of rounding up and torturing innocent men and women. Its failure to punish those who have committed acts of torture has added to the breakdown of the rule of law and to spiraling human rights violations in Iraq.

Dr. William F. Schulz

It's an essential move. Winn-Dixie was in a downward spiral, and this kind of restructuring helps them pull out of it. If you've got a body that's sick, you perform major surgery. What we're seeing here is that major surgery.

Mark Husson

The vast majority of asteroids and all the planets spin about a single axis, like a football thrown in a perfect spiral. But Toutatis tumbles like a flubbed pass.

Scott Hudson

There is no question that higher interest rates, spiraling property values, a flat economy and a myriad of other factors are combining to make 2006 another difficult year for homeowners.

Jeremy Shapiro

Should these losses and cash drain continue, MAS would enter a downward spiral from which it would not likely recover.

Idris Jala

Usually we only see a thick vapor layer from Earth, but with our camera we can look into it, see shapes in the clouds and a spiral round the pole.

Horst Uwe Keller

Frank Lloyd Wright's inverted oatmeal dish and silo with their awkward cantilevering, their jaundiced skin and the ingenious spiral ramp leading down past the abstractions which mirror the tortured maladjustments of our time.

Robert Moses

People with means can often find themselves on a downward spiral. It can happen very quickly. Here you are someone who is healthy, working, with health insurance, and just one serious health crisis and you're homeless.

Sue Berkowitz

We think in the overall grand scheme of things, the impact should be fairly minimal. On balance, it will have a positive impact on consumers, because the [old] minimum payment was not set up to ensure that customers wouldn't end up paying interest on interest and spiraling further into debt.

Karen Thomas

They can rake a forearm. If you try to pick them up they go into a spiraling twisting motion.

Bob Gress

We are watching with increased concern the spiral of violence as a result of what appear to be deliberate Serb decisions to move ahead toward a military solution.

General Wesley Clark

We halted a downward spiral.

Fred Hassan

Their symptoms trigger a self-perpetuating cycle that leads to a downward spiral in their functioning.

Jennifer Pike

We'll look at what's the best way to get to a replacement system over the years ahead, ... We're looking at perhaps a spiral approach to that, ... a follow on [missile] and what's the best basing mode.

Lance Lord

April seems set to be another month of spiraling violence.

Hedi Annabi

The President's handling of the war has been a toxic mix of ignorance, arrogance, and stubborn ideology. No amount of Presidential rhetoric or preposterous campaign spin can conceal the truth about the steady downward spiral in our national security since President Bush made the decision to go to war in Iraq.

Edward M. Kennedy

What was brilliant about this movie is the way Christi wrote it. She made you care about these characters first before they start to spiral.

Zachary Yoshioka