But in much of the rich world, we have slammed on the demographic brakes so hard that it may be helping drive our current economic tailspin.

They argued that repealing the taxes would send the state even further into an economic tailspin.

He has become a tower of strength in the struggle to avert bloodshed, witch hunts and an economic tailspin.

Falling production and the slump in world gold prices have combined to accelerate Zimbabwe's economic tailspin.

Barring an economic tailspin, the rest of project will proceed in phases, with completion scheduled for 2006.

But he was trying to do the right thing to prevent an economic tailspin that later came.

Several years ago, a series of global emerging markets crises pushed down world commodities prices, forcing Brazil, and then Argentina, into an economic tailspin.

But before the project could get off the ground, the economic tailspin at Zoetrope began.

Further, Islamist terrorism is assuming more global form; one can imagine a chain of attacks setting off a worldwide economic tailspin.

Eventually, that will leave empty the company's current Detroit headquarters and threaten to put that part of the city in an economic tailspin.