Word: lull
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There was a momentary lull in the conversation...
From the canyons of Wall Street to the assembly lines of sprawling factories, the performance of the U.S. economy was generating a high level of anxiety and uncertainty last week. The New York Stock Exchange settled into a nervous lull in the aftermath of the record plunge of the Dow Jones industrial average the week before. The Commerce Department reconfirmed that growth in the gross national product was almost completely stalled in the second quarter. Economists, executives and workers all pondered the same questions: Is the U.S. slipping into a recession? Are interest rates headed higher? Is inflation poised...
...April 4: LULL BEFORE THE STORM...
Life here will then enter a brief lull until 1602 freshmen descend on Harvard Yard September...
...driven to analyzing not what the trip accomplished but whether it had any content at all. It was the White House that staged and stamped it as news and the press that went along for the ride. The networks, eager to give an air of importance to the summer lull, are all too willing to play along with staged news, and thus share a complicity. President Reagan now has big-league competition in the creation of news, non-news and is-it-or-isn't-it news. Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev has obviously spent a lot of time analyzing...