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Again saving his breath, the man backed downspin, but slantwise, so that he added little to his weight.

At the time, Turkey was called the Vietnam of Procter & Gamble because the operations were in a downspin.

And then, with the real estate market in a downspin, the former owner stopped paying his taxes and the Sally Lane property went to the county.

This downspin, speeded by drought and debt-service payments, proved politically fatal to Eduardo Angeloz of the ruling Radical party.

"There's enough downspin to inflation still that even with this, you still have a good chance of coming in under last year's increase" in consumer prices, said David C. Munro, a longtime White House economic forecaster who now works for High Frequency Economics in Manhattan.