Word: slowdowns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...upshot: Chase Econometrics, a private research firm, forecasts that economic expansion in 12 major nations will slow, on average, from 5.5% this year to 4.5% in 1977. In Europe, it predicts, growth will slip from an already modest 4.2% in 1976 to 3.9% next year. While such a slowdown would still be a long way from outright recession, it would aggravate already serious commercial and political strains throughout the non-Communist world...
...Jimmy Carter's election with a minicrash. During the first eight trading days since the vote, the Dow Jones industrial average plummeted more than 38 points, to a close of 927.69, the lowest since last January. Though stock traders have had other things to worry about-primarily the slowdown in the economy-the chief reason for the sell-off appears to be fear that Carter's programs to speed up the economy will set off a new burst of inflation...
...bedeviled nations, such as Britain, Italy and, to a lesser degree, France. Moreover, almost all economists agree that a slump in Europe would be bad news for the U.S. Says Lawrence Klein, President-elect Carter's chief economic adviser: "What really scares me is signs of a worldwide slowdown at a time when the economies of the West have become increasingly synchronized...
...world business slowdown poses an exquisite dilemma. Though Carter is expected to pursue a far more stimulative policy than President Ford, he will have to move gingerly lest he fire up inflation, which is now running at an annual rate of 5.5%. That pace is low compared with Holland's 8% or Britain's 14%, but it is much too high by historical standards in the U.S. Yet if the Carter Administration fails to take the lead in reviving the industrial world's laggard economy, the U.S. cannot hope to achieve the robust recovery the President-elect...
...speaking of Kubacki, the senior signal-caller, despite his slowdown during the last month, now needs but 128 yards to reset the oldest career record remaining in the Crimson books, the total offense mark...