Word: prolonging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this does not sound too Calvinistic, will come to bear in the downturn, making it deeper than it otherwise would be. And the medium of that will be a shrinkage in the availability of credit. Just as the advent of ever longer maturities in car loans, for example, helped prolong and deepen the expansion, so will shrinkage in the terms of credit -- whether they be in car loans or mortgages or corporate lending -- deepen the recession. I am not at all sure this is going to be a Grapes of Wrath. At least, I hope not. But I think...
Another speaker, George E. Vaillant '55, Professor of Psychiatry at Dartmouth Medical School, spoke about how self-care can prolong life. Vaillant is the director of the "Grant" Study of Adult Development, which has kept tabs on a group of male Harvard graduates of the same...
...weekend sales convention in Dallas when she got word to hurry home to Cherokee, Iowa. Last Tuesday she and her husband Donald, 39, called their five-year-old son Joe in Omaha to tell him that he and his year-old brother Phillip would have to prolong a visit with their grandmother. The next day Christie and Donald flew to Wilmington, N.C., with an Army reserve unit called to active port-security duty, leaving family and friends to harvest the corn and soybeans from their 200-acre farm in October...
...flat or falling. In the five-month period ending last May, New York City and northeastern New Jersey lost 15,000 private-industry jobs, their first drop in such employment since 1982. Economists believe a lasting increase in oil prices would hit the area hard. "It would deepen and prolong the downturn here," says Wayne Ayers, chief economist for the Bank of Boston...
Student leaders charge that Roh is planning to use his parliamentary control to postpone elections, scheduled for 1992, and prolong his rule. There is no evidence to support this so far, and among professional politicians Roh is more often accused of weak leadership. His nickname, "Water," reflects the view that he is a bit slippery and hard to pin down...