Word: slided
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...premise that next year will be better. Unfortunately, 1982 is shaping up as the third consecutive year in which net farm income is sharply depressed. After reaching $32.7 billion in 1979, it plummeted to $19.9 billion in 1980, limped along at $22.9 billion in 1981 and could slide below $15 billion this year. Adjusted for inflation and with the paper value of immense unsold inventories deducted, farm income has dropped to its lowest level since the 1930s. Millions of farmers are operating at severe losses...
...moment." This view of De Chirico as formalist fits all the evidence, and rids the artist of a great deal of accumulated "poetic" waffle. It also helps one to distinguish, in a way that makes sense, between De Chirico's real achievements and the long slide into mediocrity after 1918. Authentic pre-1918 De Chiricos are few, and most of them are on the MOMA'S walls. On the other hand, copies and "later" versions-a euphemism for self-forgeries-are everywhere. (One of them, from the Cleveland Museum of Art, dubiously identified as a 1917 Metaphysical Interior...
...willingness of members to abide by the agreement. In the past two years, weakening worldwide demand for oil has driven down the spot-market prices for crude until they were about $6 per bbl. below the official OPEC benchmark price of $34 per bbl. If prices continue to slide, cash-hungry producers such as Algeria, Venezuela and Nigeria will be tempted to offer under-the-table deals to potential customers in order to take sales away from other cartel producers. To monitor compliance, OPEC decided to set up an oversight committee that will keep tabs on weekly production figures...
Though petroleum imports into the U.S. market have dropped from 6.8 million bbl. to 4.8 million bbl. per day during the past twelve months, the slide may be simply setting the stage for a renewed supply squeeze, and a surge in imports, once the economy starts to grow again. Though an energy tax would help prevent foreign suppliers from regaining their former economic leverage over the U.S., lawmakers are beginning to see an even more compelling reason to enact a levy. Properly drawn, a tax would help close the revenue chasm in future Administration budget projections...
...venerable (197-year-old) Times of London, was appointing an imaginative and sternly independent editor. Murdoch hailed Harold Evans, for 14 years the chief of the separate Sunday Times, as Britain's "greatest editor" and the ideal man to reverse the daily paper's long, steep financial slide...