However, the seeds were expensive, and spiralling prices (coupled with planting restrictions from the multinationals selling the seeds) led to farmers approaching money lenders for hefty loans that eventually turned into unmanageable debt.
"Stadiums can be expensive but roads often spiral way over budget.
But CareSkore's system helps hospitals make follow-up calls to the right patients at the right time and ask them the right questions to catch complications before they spiral into expensive health problems.
Whether the pool – unashamedly unadorned by slides or wave machines because they were considered too expensive as the budget spiralled upwards – can be made to balance the books is another matter.
Experts soon worried that the threefold pressures of rising life expectancy, expensive new technologies and spiralling expectations might sink the NHS; patients now lust for perfection and immortality, and find exotic ways to achieve them on the internet.In this section Collateral damage Throwing in the keys Keyhole operation Sharing the wealth A hard pounding for Mr Brown?
The big worry is a wage-price spiral, with more expensive goods leading to higher wage demands, which in turn feed back into higher prices.
The number of prison inquests is spiralling, as are expensive inquiries into the cause of such deaths, which cause huge emotional damage to the prisoner's family.
We couldn't make it on the pilot or season 1 because it was so expensive, so it sort of spiraled into season 2 and we were like, "The priority of this season is to get Cake Train made".
They are also deathly expensive and often result in a spiral of debt for their users," says Gregory B. Fairchild, associate professor of business administration at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business, who's been studying issues related to financial inclusion for around a decade.
This is what's known in the insurance business as a "death spiral": more and more expensive customers with fewer and fewer healthy ones in any given year to cover the costs.
Everybody knows the Affordable Care Act has been a massive, expensive failure, with prices and spending spiraling out of control.
