Word: slump
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...acute danger," as Heath has noted, that his deflationary measures could spread to Europe's industrial economies, all of which are struggling with inflation and the prospect of vastly higher oil bills. The result of that kind of domino-style deflation, Heath said, could be "a disastrous slump...
...first six months of this year are up 16.4% from the same period in 1972. Recently Cefis turned up in Moscow to sign a deal under which Montedison will build seven chemical plants for the Soviet Union for a price of $500 million. The transaction breaks a two-year slump in Italian-Soviet trade...
Joining Adedeji on the new four man front line (assuming Adedeji can play) will be J. P. Gilbert, Art Faden and LeRoy Thompson. All have improved with the season and hopefully they will break out of their scoring slump today...
Hendrix fanatics, after all, are fanatics, and they will loyally troop to see this and any other as yet unreleased Hendrix film. But in the Astor theater, the concert crowds slump lower and lower in their seats. Jimi Plays Berkeley brings no new excitement, no new insight. When the house lights come up, many are actually asleep, and the rest file out silently. No one calls for more...
There is the feeling that events are crowding around the White House threshold and they will soon have to tumble out. The optimism of a few days ago that maybe Nixon had turned the corner and was starting out of his slump seems swept away now. There is Agnew looming large and the Watergate hearings resuming this week. There is the sense that maybe Nixon has not reached the end of his slide after all, that he is being swept along once again by events that cannot be foreseen or managed. There is Archie Cox and the vast court apparatus...