Word: slump
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bigness was its strength, enabling the company to dominate the computer industry so thoroughly that its competitors cried out for antitrust relief. No more. Today Big Blue's bulk has become a colossal burden. While the rest of the computer industry has emerged from an overall slump and surged forward with robust sales increases, IBM has plodded along (1987 revenues: $54.2 billion, up just 8% in a two-year period). IBM has tried to become lighter on its feet by cutting staff, modernizing factories and streamlining its process for getting new products to market. But results ! have been slow...
...feels pretty good after my slow start," Murphy said. "I'd like to keep it going. I was playing well at the beginning of the season. It was just a slump. I'm not playing any differently now than I did then...
...nine. Child Psychiatrist William Sonis of the University of Pennsylvania, who in a 1985 survey found that 6.5% of 1,000 students at a suburban Minnesota high school had SAD, says that too often "the symptoms are attributed to school-related issues, like the seventh- or tenth-grade slump." Or they are ascribed to behavior problems. "The most prevalent symptom among children is irritability," says Sonis. "Kids said they picked fights and they didn't know why." The clue that their problems are due to SAD: depression recurs year after year...
...million on sales of $327 million during its past fiscal year, making it one of the fastest-growing new manufacturing concerns in history. But in the view of industry analysts, the company expanded too swiftly and spent too much money just as the toy market began to slump. By the third quarter of this year, WOW posted a loss of $43 million. Its stock has plunged from 29 in June 1986 to 2 5/16 last week. WOW officials are meeting this week with creditors, having already been sued by three lenders for not paying bills...
...most asked economic question since Black Monday is whether the crash * will bring a general slump, and yet few economists feel certain one way or another. Says Jerry Jasinowski, chief economist for the National Association of Manufacturers: "We're in the eye of a hurricane right now. All the usual indicators aren't very useful in telling what's going to happen next." While the consensus is that growth will slow to a laggard 1% or 2% early in 1988, there are no concrete signs so far of a drastic consumer-spending slowdown. Last week the Commerce Department reported that...