Word: downturn
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...even a new Titanic may not be much of a match for the fleets of gigantic new ships. Then again, the sheer number of ships may be no match for the next economic downturn. Right now, that doesn't worry the industry. It's confident it can continue to increase the number of people willing to pay for their sea legs. And if worse ever comes to worst, sailing to the poorhouse will never be so luxe...
Given all that, the real wonder may be that schoolboy massacres are still an aberration. But like crime generally, juvenile violence involving guns has actually been in decline since 1994. A downturn in the ultraviolent crack trade is one reason. Just two weeks ago, the National Center for Education Statistics, in a survey requested by President Clinton, found the incidence of serious crime in schools to be flat. In the past year, only 10% reported a rape, robbery or fight involving a weapon. But again, like crime generally, violent juvenile crime has stabilized at a rate that would have seemed...
From there, Breggin said he studied to become a doctor and psychiatrist. However, he said, the profession took a serious downturn in the 1960s...
Perhaps because of this "spirit" however, the sophomore who spoke on condition of anonymity said the economic downturn in South Korea has also turned South Koreans against students who study abroad and use up foreign exchange...
...rattle its sabers at the island, as it did in 1996, almost certainly drawing the U.S. into a conflict. Next shoe: Beijing, which holds about $100 billion in U.S. Treasury securities, largely as a result of its huge trade surplus, could threaten to unload them, causing a major downturn in U.S. financial markets...