1.   And thus the death spiral of the American economy begins.

2.   As their service deteriorated, more freight business went to the trucks in what seemed to be a death spiral for the rail lines.

3.   Besides, she added, subsidies would only slow down the death spiral.

4.   A rental car was timidly approaching a roundabout that must have looked like a death spiral to Richard Williams in one of his first attempts at English driving rules.

5.   After the company admitted it had overstated earnings for years by hundreds of millions of dollars, its stock fell into a death spiral.

6.   But now he thinks the city he loves is in a cultural death spiral.

7.   But one year of wrestling has done much to reverse what had been looking like a death spiral.

8.   But these days, the Sonics are in a death spiral.

9.   But when the truth did finally begin to emerge, after Enron entered its death spiral and numerous investigations were begun, it was much too late.

10.   Dmitriev and his partner, Kazakova, did an atrocious death spiral that left Kazakova wobbling like a top and unable to lower her head near the ice.