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...depression" and "recession" have become bad words, particularly among politicians, and are never to be used if a nicer word can be found. Thus, a whole new vocabulary has evolved. In the new jargon, a recession can be a "rolling readjustment," a "correction," a "slippage," an "easing," a "mild dip," a "downswing," a "normal adjustment," a "leveling off," a "slight downturn," a "lull," a "return to normalcy" or a "thingumajig." These euphemisms, of course, also defy definition. What, for instance, is a "return to normalcy," when for decades no one has known what economic normalcy...
...merely a statistical flutter. Unemployment rose some 60% in a few months to 3,400,000 (not even high enough to meet Nathan's present-day definition of recession). Prices declined only slightly, industrial output dropped a mere 8%, and stock prices, after a quick 10% dip, were higher (200.52) at the end of 1949 than they were...
...century are little more than a veneer covering a Louisburg over a hundred years old. The gleaming brass nameplates of the houses might have been nailed on yesterday, but the houses themselves were all built before 1850. The street is paved--but the old cobblestones still show through a dip in the pavement at the west end. The lights which once burned whale oil now use electricity but the modern bulbs, without globes, are fixed into the old lamps. There are not many lights, and at night the center green becomes a mass of black surrounded by a glinting curlicue...
...describe the "dip-free" Sheaffer Snorkel pens in South Africa, Grant had to find a substitute for dip (doop), which means "baptize" in Afrikaans...
DESPITE the price dip in natural rubber, which has fallen 4? a Ib. since May to a 3½-year low, tiremakers will not cut their prices. Reason: they expect forthcoming wage hikes will more than offset the savings in raw materials...