Word: slowdown
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...When the Crimson found itself down by only two with 5:04 to go, Duke proceeded to take away any possible Harvard momentum by calling for a slowdown, during which the Blue Devils passed the ball around the perimeter for close to four minutes...
Again, Duke threatened to initiate another slowdown, and Harvard found itself forced to grab David Henderson. Henderson dumped in his two free throws, putting the Blue Devils up by four with only 46 on the clock...
...succeeded Menachem Begin as Prime Minister last October, Israel's unemployment is also an increasing concern. Cohen-Orgad acknowledges that the fig ure may triple, to 30,000 (2.5%), this year. There has already been widespread la bor unrest. Defense minis try employees have been on a work slowdown for two months. Last week the nation's railroad workers went out on strike, while postal employees caused major disruptions in mail service and all 60,000 of the country's civil servants went on strike for three hours...
Such red ink reflects the overcrowding and the slowdown in revenue growth that have been driving some major firms out of parts of the cable industry. CBS scuttled its CBS Cable cultural channel in September 1982 after just 13 months, and RCA and Rockefeller Center, Inc. folded their Entertainment Channel last year, nine months after it began...
...acute power shortage is the result of a two-year drought that has all but stilled the hydroelectric system, which supplies 92% of the country's energy. Unfortunately, it occurred as the economy was already struggling with the effects of a slowdown that began in 1977, when earnings from key exports, especially cocoa and coffee, dropped 40%. Without electricity, industrial capacity has plunged an estimated 35%. Construction is off 50%. Total business losses are officially placed at $80 million so far this winter, out of an annual G.N.P. of $10 billion. Lacina Coulibaly, president...