Word: slide
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Observe all this and then recall the phrase American Decline. Consider the sense of failure and loss that it implies. The effect is disorienting and provocative. Is this really a country that must inevitably slide downward...
...Iraq. Although Bush, much like Lyndon Johnson during Vietnam, has sought to downplay the domestic costs of Desert Shield, he will not be able to do so for long. The fear of war alone was enough to push financial markets in the U.S., Europe and Japan into a deep slide, a mere foretaste of the worldwide economic disaster that would occur if an all-out war erupted, involving not just the U.S. and Iraq but Saudi Arabia and other Middle Eastern countries -- perhaps including Israel -- as well. The call-up of U.S. reserves will remove 40,000 men and women...
...Giant roller coaster at Six Flags Over Texas, riders can enjoy a glittering view of the Dallas skyline 16 miles distant. But few manage to look at it. They are staring down in horror at the gaping 14-story plunge awaiting them. As the red, white and blue cars slide slowly over the edge and then barrel down the $ 137-ft. incline at 62 m.p.h., the screaming riders begin 90 seconds of tightly orchestrated horror...
...midst of a heated campaign for the district attorney's seat, the movie begins with incumbent Raymond Horgan (Brian Dennehy) losing ground to the challenger, Nico Della Guardia (Tom Mardirosian). Horgan needs something quick and sensational, he thinks, to halt his slide...
...downturns in everything from computers to construction. In Massachusetts the unemployment rate has surged from 3% in 1988 to 5.8%. Meanwhile, the securities industry has laid off 45,000 employees, or about 10% of its work force, since the 1987 crash. The hard times caused home sales to slide 15% in the Northeast last year. "It's hard to see how things could get terribly much worse in the region," says Samuel Hayes, a professor at the Harvard Business School...