Word: slips
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...least two consecutive quarters of negative growth. While economic growth has slowed in Japan, it has not ceased. Government economists are predicting a 3.5% increase in GNP for 1992. Outside experts are not so sanguine. But nearly everyone agrees that GNP growth in Japan is unlikely to slip into negative numbers, as it did last year in the U.S. and Britain. "There's no question that we are in a recession," pronounces Kunio Miyamoto, chief economist of the Sumitomo-Life Research Institute. "But it is a recession, Japanese-style...
...more basic worry is that unless drilling rebounds to the 1,100-rig level and stays there, the industry's infrastructure will be so impaired that it won't be able to come back -- ever -- and U.S. production will slip further. Oilmen decry the lack of attention and support that they feel the industry gets -- from the White House on down. "We should have a domestic energy policy, but we still don't have," asserts Pickens. Baker Hughes economist Ike Kerridge agrees: "There's a real danger in driving too many people out of business. The government ought...
...scandalous insurance salesman. MacMurray sells a policy for accidental death to a naive man and plots with the man's wife (Barbra Stanwyck) to kill him and collect the money. MacMurray's boss (Edward G. Robinson), hesitant to pay the policy, stalks the couple, waiting for one fatal slip...
...lost some big contracts. Wall Street's Kidder, Peabody dropped the firm because "when Pinkerton's was bought out by CPP, the service started falling apart," says John Poppe, Kidder's director of security. "There was constant turnover of guards." In January, Smith Barney gave Pinkerton's the pink slip as well. "Big security companies become apathetic," complains an executive at the brokerage. "We've had guards who were unable to write, unable to answer phones...
Despite heavy fatigue, Ezra was not about to let the title slip away so easily, as he mounted a comeback in the fourth with a 18-15 win to tie the count...