Since the article was published, the mayor has spiralled downwards.
In part that was because Merrill accelerated $3.6 billion of bonus payments even as it spiralled towards a $27.6 billion annual loss last year.
Wang Ho-fu and Tang Yun-shan remained still for a moment, and the only movement was of the latter's shiny bald head, and of the smoke of his cigarette, which spiralled upwards from his lips like bubbles rising to the surface of a pond.
The stairs spiralled round the central pillar.
The females have a club-shaped posterior extremity, the male (have) a flatly spiralled end.
After decades of wrangling, there is agreement at last on a fast underground Crossrail linking suburbs west and east, but this will not be open until 2017 at the earliest and the cost has spiralled.
A few wisps of smoke spiralled up.
Today's is a dark blue snail-shell, spiralled and chequered with paler blue and purple, picked up somewhere on the Downs.
The motorcade spiralled up the mountain.
Before you can say "difficult second album", sales of ocarinas (a small handheld flute-like instrument) in Japan have spiralled and Link is boots-deep in groupies on a 50-day world tour.
William spiralled up to being the head of his department.
She stood by him as he spiralled into drug addiction.
By now politicians were hotfooting it back, to get a grip on a situation that had clearly spiralled out of control.
Vines spiralled upward toward the roof.
The smoke spiralled upwards.