Word: downturned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...January, however, a downturn began. The return fell to 1 percent in the third quarter of fiscal 1994, and in the last quarter it rebounded only slightly for a .8 percent gain...
This past downturn in the economy hit African Americans disproportionately hard, according to a report by the General Accounting Office. Blacks were 15 percent more likely than whites to lose their jobs. Asians experienced the lowest layoff risk. Once African-Americans lost their jobs, they were unemployed slightly longer than workers in other racial groups. And when they were re-employed, they had to take a 10.1 percent salary cut -- the highest of any racial or ethnic category...
...polls on Aug. 21, eager to register their complaints about corruption, crime, injustice to the poor, unemployment and unfulfilled government promises of a better standard of living. The January uprising by peasants in Chiapas, the assassination of the ruling party's presidential candidate in March, a gradual downturn in the economy, and an outburst of drug shootings and kidnappings have convinced a large segment of Mexico's people that their society needs serious repair. Just a month ago, they appeared to resent the failures of the Salinas government so bitterly that many were ready to turn out his Institutional Revolutionary...
Fallows dismisses Tokyo's current economic downturn as nothing more than a temporary setback, similar to those that followed the huge boost in oil prices in 1972 and the rapid appreciation of the yen in 1985. Both times the Japanese economy came back leaner and, Fallows believes, meaner than ever. Now, he says, Japan and East Asia will present an overwhelming challenge to the U.S. Although the U.S. remains the world's largest (and still most productive) national economy, Fallows predicts that unless it adopts a more interventionist national economic policy and consumes less while saving more, it will...
...Boeing continues to take the steps necessary to adjust to the market downturn...