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    tailspin
    [ noun ]
    1. loss of emotional control often resulting in emotional collapse

    2. <noun.state>
    3. rapid descent of an aircraft in a steep spiral

    4. <noun.act>


    1. U.S. efforts to promote negotiations went into a tailspin in March with the collapse of the Israeli government over Baker's formula for the negotiations.
    2. New car and truck sales are in a tailspin, partly because of sagging consumer confidence, worry about conflict in the Middle East and a slowing economy.
    3. With airline deals in a tailspin, legendary Wall Street trader Michael Steinhardt could have trouble parachuting out of USAir Group, traders say.
    4. If the tailspin in real estate were arrested and values stabilized, the dominolike effects of depressed real estate prices on the economy could be stopped.
    5. Yesterday's jolt doesn't necessarily mean that the dollar has started a full-fledged tailspin after a long period of gradual decline.
    6. The workforce has given the deal an enthusiastic welcome, and the commercial aircraft market seems finally to be climbing out of its Gulf war tailspin.
    7. The worry is that another gap as large as the $15.7 billion deficit in June could send the dollar into another tailspin and could prompt another round of interest rate increases, they said.
    8. By the time the 1982 oil price collapse sent Mexico's economy into a tailspin, 20% to 40% of the capital's office space was unoccupied, brokers say.
    9. He said his tailspin began when the woman he lived with on Long Island cheated on him and he left her.
    10. Word of a summer slump in foreign demand for the anti-baldness drug Rogaine helped send Upjohn Corp. stock into a tailspin in heavy trading yesterday and late last week.
    11. Many were surprised that the stock market didn't head into a tailspin given the weakness in the dollar and a second consecutive day of rising interest rates in the bond market.
    12. Based on the acclaimed novel by Pulitzer Prize-winner Anne Tyler, the movie illuminates the world of a finicky travel writer named Macon Leary (William Hurt) who is thrown into a tailspin when his wife (Kathleen Turner) leaves him.
    13. In truth, neither Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, nor some other chronic quota violators has the ability to produce a lot more at the moment and thus trigger a price tailspin.
    14. Its success also contributed to Hopper's 15-year tailspin.
    15. Possibly the strongest element supporting the dollar is a belief among currency traders that major central banks will intervene in foreign exchange markets to buy dollars aggressively if the U.S. currency slips into a tailspin.
    16. On other markets, cotton and sugar posted strong gains; the tailspin continued for frozen pork bellies while livestock futures were mixed; energy and precious-metals futures advanced; and stock-index futures plummeted.
    17. During the morning, some actively traded Treasury issues plummeted about 1 3/4 points, or around $17.50 for each $1,000 face amount, extending Monday's sharp tailspin.
    18. A rise in Treasury market yields above 9% and oil price declines pushed tax-exempt issues into a tailspin, traders said.
    19. They don't expect chipmakers will hit the kind of tailspin they did in early 1985, when a red-hot market suddenly soured and end-users, who had hoarded hard-to-get chips during the boom, slashed orders and used up their inventories.
    20. The loss for the defense contractor caught stock analysts by surprise and sent the company's stock on the New York Stock Exchange into a tailspin.
    21. Analysts believe the RJR sale will be a benchmark for the $180 billion a year junk bond market, which has been in a tailspin because of recession talk and a Harvard University report that junk bonds may have a higher default rate than previously believed.
    22. And the junk bond market, a major source of takeover financing, went into a tailspin.
    23. But the tightening has done little to reassure financial markets, which have been in a tailspin in recent days, driven down not only by inflation concerns but fears that interest rates will go higher.
    24. The courtship was supposed to exemplify how the airline industry was going global, but now industry officials believe the chances of creating the world's first truly multinational carrier have gone into a tailspin.
    25. Even Hershey's chairman, Richard A. Zimmerman, has admitted Friendly's difficulties, telling analysts it was in "a tailspin" due to intense competition and a shortage of good help that has hurt service.
    26. Tokyo stocks entered a tailspin, amid expectations of higher inflation and a move by the Bank of Japan to raise the discount rate it charges on loans to financial institutions.
    27. The McNamar proposal could be warmly received by members of Congress from energy-producing states such as Texas, where already-weak real estate markets could be driven into a tailspin by the quick sale of repossessed property.
    28. To the surprise of analysts, stock markets began to recover from a week-long tailspin that saw share prices plunge by more than 34 percent on average.
    29. Three Stratus Computer Inc. officials sold shares last month, before the stock went into a tailspin this week on disappointing earnings news, Securities and Exchange Commission filings show.
    30. Her appointment as publisher this year, Mr. Allison insists, has ruined the magazine, broken promises made to him and thrown the publishing venture into a tailspin.
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