Word: lull
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...makers of small machines. As the number of personal-computer companies grew from a handful five years ago to more than 180 today, competition became ferocious. Except for a few leaders, the firms are scrambling for shelf space in stores at a time when sales have hit an unexpected lull. Quips Fred Hoar, a former Apple executive and now vice president of Raychem, a specialty chemical company: "The personal-computer industry has reached a new chapter in its history: Chapter...
...Saudi-Iranian encounter came during a relative lull in the fighting. At least two more ships were hit during the week. Iraqi Super Etendards swooped down on the Turkish tanker Buyuk Hun in the vicinity of the Iranian oil terminal at Kharg Island (see box). The ship was set ablaze and had to be abandoned, but its crew was rescued. At week's end Iraq" also claimed its warplanes had hit two "naval targets," otherwise unidentified, near Kharg Island, but the attacks could not be confirmed...
...tanker war hits a lull, but Iraq fears a new land offensive...
Unemployment has shown the biggest twelve-month drop since the Korean War. But we shouldn't let this lull us into believing that we don't have to do something about the deficits...
...visited Beirut and some of the Marine positions only a week ago," Smith said. "There had been a brief lull in Lebanon's bloodshed. It is astonishing how quickly the devastation resumed...