Word: slump
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...despite Harvard's post-exam slump, there is still an impressive amount of quality on the Crimson squad: the New Hampshire victory the Cornell game, and the last two periods of the contest with B. U. are examples of what Harvard can do when it wants to play serious hockey...
...Bulldogs' unexpected slump, along with Penn's continued rebellion, helped to jumble already confused league standings even further last week, and although Cornell seems to have wrapped up the Ivy crown without dispute, the runnerup position is open to any one of four squads...
...less growth for the economy this year than last. Gross national product should rise about 5½% to $985 billion, the CEA predicted, compared with the too swift 7.7% expansion during 1969. The trick, of course, is to keep the anti-inflationary slowdown from growing into a grave economic slump. Last week, stock prices, often an advance indicator of broader economic trends, fell to their lowest level since November 1963 (see BUSINESS). Still, Nixon told his news conference at week's end: "I do not expect a recession to occur." Thanks to his "real" budget surplus, he added...
MOST Americans know the first Americans only by cliché. There is the 19th century image, caught in bronze and in lithograph, of the defeated warrior, head drooping forward so that his feathers nearly mingle with his pony's mane. The bow of his shoulders and the slump of his body evoke his loss of pride, of green and fertile lands, of earth's most favored continent. Then there is a recent image, often seen through air-conditioned automobile windows. Grinning shyly, the fat squaw hawks her woven baskets along the reservation highway, the dusty landscape littered with rusting cars, crumbling...
Investors were despondent over the slide. The fear of a major business slump pervaded Wall Street like a chill fog. The mood conjured up the grim humor of The Bears of Wall Street Celebrating a Drop in the Market, a 19th century painting by William Holbrook Beard that hangs in the gallery of the New-York Historical Society. In hushed boardrooms, glum customers and brokers no longer spoke about Viet Nam. The topic was the recession and how long it would be before the Administration realized how serious it could become. President Nixon's press-conference avowal last week...