Word: slump
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Economic Slump. Though the junta has brought stability to Greece and taken a certain number of sensible steps, it has little to celebrate on its first an niversary except its own dogged determination to hold onto power. The country is still ruled by decree, and the press remains under tight censorship. Because of the period of political uncertainty that preceded the coup, the Greek economy, which had been growing nearly as fast as Japan's, was headed into a recession even before the colonels seized power. Despite all sorts of pump-priming measures, such as the cancellation...
Tourism fell 14% in 1967, and is off badly this year. The construction trade, Greece's second biggest industry after agriculture, has experienced a slump. Foreign investment has declined some 30% below the 1966 level...
...baseball are only now beginning their ascent to the top after a couple of off-seasons, while soccer, basketball and lacrosse, none too hot to begin with, are at least breathing some signs of life these days. Indeed, as far as championships are concerned, Harvard is in a slump...
Peters's long bout with mononucleosis last summer has been pointed to as the cause of his slump, but he doesn't think that's right. "I'm fully recovered from it," he said...
...three hours a day, five days a week, Peters has been throwing, working hard on his pitching rhythm. "I just can't get anything over. I've got to get the rhythm," he said. The 6-5, 210-pound righthander suffered a similar slump in the middle of last season when he lost to Princeton, Columbia, and Dartmouth, and he thinks he'll pull out of this one. "It's not an insurmountable problem," he said. Coach Norm Shepard agreed yesterday, "I don't see why he shouldn't pull...