Word: blipped
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...amid an industry drought in which ticket sales fell from 1.63 billion in 2002 to 1.53 billion last year. And attendance is lagging again this summer. But since 1970, annual ticket sales have risen 67%, outpacing population growth, so AMC representatives argue that the recent downturn is but a blip for U.S. box-office numbers, which totaled $9.53 billion...
...been a historical discipline. Any economist who will say to you, ‘I’m going to be telling you about what happened last week,’ you just shouldn’t listen to, because what happened last week could just be a transitory blip,” Goldin says...
...unsatisfying and minor, a predictable blip on the national baseball radar: two unmemorable box scores scrolling by meekly on ESPN during one hot weekend in early June...
...medium-sized country like Australia, China's economic and political rise seems irresistible. The two countries have been been growing closer for some three decades, since Australia gave diplomatic recognition to the communist People's Republic in 1972. China's growth and reform have continued with barely a blip since 1978. But trade and the movement of people go back a lot further, as Fu Ying, China's Ambassador to Australia, notes. "The history, habits and nature of our peoples have laid the foundations for the extension of relations," she says. "We are able to understand each other...
...United States," but rather "as a partner of the U.S." Fair enough. But if the Bush Administration isn't ready to treat the E.U. as a serious partner - and if the Europeans remain unwilling or unable to offer credible alternative policies - what some have dismissed as an unhappy blip in transatlantic relations could deepen into a permanent depression. That won't be good for Europe, America or the planet...