Word: slided
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...expected it." However, some bankers and lawyers, perhaps aware of how popular Coon had suddenly become, were only mildly critical. Pittsburgh Attorney Bernard Markovitz, who handles foreclosures, said, "If Coon's intent is only to help them straighten out payment plans, I'm willing to let this slide." But he added, "Somebody has to pay. Nothing's for free these days. Other people have rights in this and they have to be protected...
...markets for everything from Chinese ceramics to Government bonds last year provided a classic case study of what happens to investment values when interest rates and inflation begin to slide. Collectibles, which once glittered in the glare of rising prices, assumed a certain dowdiness, while the stock market won the spotlight as it pierced all previous tops. But the real stars were bonds...
Although developing countries borrowed prudently to maintain growth in the face of higher energy costs after the 1973 oil shock, they were beginning to slide into deep debt by the time the second major oil-price hike came in 1978-79. Now they find themselves pinned down by a combination of events, each of which, by itself, would be troublesome enough: a lingering world recession; high interest rates; slumping exports and generally flat trade; increasing protectionism in the industrialized countries; and low commodity prices. Interest payments fall due, and national treasuries must strain to the limits to pay. Everywhere...
Left wing Lee Blossom started the land slide when he knocked in a loose puck with just 1:51 gone. Center Neil Shea made the most of a pass behind the Crimson defense to make it 2-0 less than three minutes later, and Rob Monleon's shot ricocheted off McEvoy's glove into the twine just two minutes after that...
...year since 1932. Nowhere in the country was the misery of economic downturn more acute than in the factory towns of the nation's industrial heartland. As consumers lost confidence in promises of economic recovery, household spending stalled out, shaking the already depressed auto industry. In a slide since 1979, new-car sales skidded to a 21-year low of about 5.7 million units, while unemployment surged to 23% of the auto industry's 1.1 million-worker labor force. The unwillingness, and often even the actual inability, of businesses to expand their plants and production facilities...