Word: dips
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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American firms are also noticing a dip in business as the economy starts to slow. Domestic orders for U.S. semiconductors topped $1 billion a month in the first half of 1984, but last week the Semiconductor Industry Association said they fell to $843 million in September. Nonetheless, the industry remains optimistic. Says Zieber: "We are entering a period of adjustment from the very strong market of the past six quarters into something less robust. But we don't expect things to fall apart, because we don't expect the economy to fall apart." Indeed, with the rebound still...
There is some anxiety that the economic changes will result in higher prices and open the way for such capitalist troubles as bankruptcy and unemployment. In any case, the success of Hungary's flirtation with capitalist economics will ultimately depend on Moscow: every dip in the East-West temperature hits Hungary like a cold spell. Budapest downplayed East German Leader Erich Honecker's decision not to visit West Germany; instead it emphasizes the possible improvements in superpower relations that might result from the Washington meeting between President Reagan and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko...
...looking at shallow. I'm just not that deep. You're looking at a bundle of insecurity. I always think that everything good is going to evaporate and disappear overnight. I am the quietest person at the party. I position myself at the chip dip and don't leave all night. I still have a very ordinary, simple person trapped in this rich, gorgeous, successful body." The joke is practiced and sure, but she does not want her listener to miss her point, so she spells it out. "The whole thrust of my existence is that...
...banking firm provided the Wall Street Journal with estimates that, at worst, Manufacturers Hanover would lose 60% of its expected second-quarter earnings if Argentina missed its payments, while Chase would suffer a 25% drop and Citicorp a 15% decline. Some of the banks admitted that their profits would dip but said the losses would be modest. Maintained Citicorp Vice President John Maloney: "The First Boston projections are completely off the wall." Nonetheless, jittery investors dumped bank stocks. On the day the First Boston figures came out, the already depressed price of Chase shares fell by 2⅛ points...
...International Summer Consumer Electronics Show in Chicago is the gaudy showcase of American high tech. By day, 100,000 industry officials throng the aisles of vast McCormick Place, surrounded by towering displays at 1,381 booths. At night, they dip shrimp into cocktail sauce at lavish corporate receptions and gossip about the competition. A year ago at the show, people were predicting that it was just a matter of time before there would be a computer in every house. But last week much of the talk was about the slow growth in home computers...