Word: slided
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hears already the night sounds of autumn: slide projectors clicking in the dark to punctuate a drone of travelogue. The oppressed audience writhes and dozes and works its eyes open and shut like jalousies. Etna will be seen in a bleeding, theatrical sunset. The Acropolis will be out of focus, Dorothy sharp in the foreground. Here is Carl squirting himself with a wineskin at Pamplona. Retired professors (triumphs of evolution) will stand over Galapagos turtles, grinning like Teddy Roosevelt after a kill. In some former slave-driving colony of the Caribbean, Dwayne will lounge by the pool wearing his Club...
Unfortunately, the team could slide. Palm's coaching expertise has played a major role in the spikers' success, but the 1982 New England Coach of the Year will not be calling the shots next season. Palm is leaving his post as a senior adviser to take up a new job involving travel commitments that prevent him from continuing as head volleyball coach...
Startling evidence of disinflation has already turned up in the marketplace. Gold and silver have been on a two-year slide and last week were selling for only $331 and $6.66 per oz., respectively. People who paid $61,100 for a one-karat investment diamond are finding that it is worth only about $18,000. Some forms of fine art, like Impressionist paintings and antique American furniture, have kept their value. Others have fallen in price: Old Master paintings now command 18% less than they did 20 months...
...firming international price of crude also represents an initial success for Saudi Arabia, which for the past two months has directed a high-stakes strategy to firm up the market. Saudi Petroleum Minister Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani had feared that a continuation of the yearlong slide in petroleum prices could destroy OPEC. Thus, at the organization's March meeting, he succeeded in winning agreement on an unprecedented package of production cuts of 700,000 bbl. per day, or 3.8% of total OPEC output...
Meanwhile, economic conditions in the area are going from bad to worse. Business in El Salvador is in catastrophic shape. The nation's gross domestic product has plunged about 20% since 1978, and analysts expect a further slide this year. The unemployment rate is approximately 30%. Two years of guerrilla warfare have nearly bankrupted the country and have destroyed tens of millions of dollars' worth of crops, roads, bridges and power stations. Says Georgetown University's Georges Fauriol: "The Administration will have a very hard time convincing any businessman who has to respond to his shareholders that...