The use and abuse in this country of powerful pain medications has spiraled upward in recent years.
Credit card debt has spiraled upward, home foreclosures are rising, and banks have become more guarded in giving out loans and mortgages.
After the Citizens United decision, the cost of running for Congress has spiraled upward giving cash-rich corporations even more power to dictate policy to money-hungry candidates.
The trend toward heavy incumbent fundraising began as competition for control of the House in the 1990s and has spiraled upward as party leadership has increased pressure on incumbents to raise money for party committees and candidates in swing districts.
Tyson's earnings have spiraled upward as fast as his career.
As Latin American countries have emerged from military dictatorships to embrace both democracy and markets, levels of inequality have remained the highest in the world, and urban drug trafficking and gang-violence have spiraled upward, not decreased.
That deal has awarded Duke steadily increasing amounts of ratepayer money as plant construction costs have spiraled upward from the original estimate approved by the IURC -- $1.985 billion -- to a current predicted cap of nearly $3 billion.
Since then, she said, it has been spiraling upward, to the point where chief executives of the top 100 British companies now earn 185 times the average salary — making £4.8 million, or $7.4 million a year — with a mix of salary, bonuses and long-term share plans.
Since then, production costs and box office expectations have spiraled ever upward.
KT: I think there are two main reasons that the market has begun spiraling upward.
But yields have started spiraling upward again in countries including Spain and Italy, making further European bailouts seem a near inevitability, destabilizing the global financial markets and suppressing growth on the Continent.
