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nosediving
verb
Present participle of nosedive
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But his narrow, disputed election victory last month, and Venezuela's nosediving economy, mean that Cuba needs other options.
When economic historians look back at the present crisis, they might well conclude that by early 2009 there was no longer any doubt:"World trade was nosediving, unwanted inventories were accumulating everywhere, and homeowners, from Copenhagen to Manchester to Orange county, were losing their property and their hard-earned savings.
McDonalds have had to adapt their British menus to include "curry and spice".But once trends become cliches they have a way of nosediving.
L&H's shares were suspended a month ago after accounting errors had been reported; its two founders have both quit the company.Sema Group, an Anglo-French computer-services outsourcing company, issued a profits warning that sent its shares nosediving by 44%.
Only a beautifully driven but slightly fortunate first victory in Hungary in 2006 stopped his career nosediving completely.
I wasn't in the picture and her health was nosediving, but at the same time everyone was starting to recognise her as an artist and sing along to "Rehab".
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As both sides have argued over punishing reforms – the condition of further financial assistance – the Greek economy has nosedived, reversing much of the progress it made last year when it showed the first signs of emerging out of recession.
It inherited an economy that was recovering in May 2010, but confidence nosedived following its spending review in October last year and we've seen little growth since.
"The most pathetic sight was of the tank trying to climb up a dirt ramp built at the site, getting stuck, and then sliding sideways off the ramp like a drunken sailor," Mr Nawaz writes, implying that America was planning to deliver inferior equipment that was unsuited to the terrain.General Zia's plane nosedived as it was returning to the capital, Islamabad, and exploded on impact.
But orders for smaller jets have nosedived, forcing Cessna and Hawker Beechcraft, two American firms dependent on this end of the market, to make drastic cuts.
In Europe and America, after a flat August, freight traffic nosedived by 6.8 % and 6 respectively, the biggest declines since 2001.IATA's director-general, Giovanni Bisignani, says the industry's cumulative losses this year are likely to exceed the organisation's earlier forecast of $5.2 billion; airlines in America alone will lose $5 billion.
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