Word: slump
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson arrived from their Arizona "vacation" in style. With senior midfielder Rob Griffith breaking out of a shooting slump with a five-goal explosion and Brad Raymond adding his second hat trick of the season, Harvard (4-1,1-1 Ivy) silenced the Quakers at Ohiri Field...
Still, Fed watchers say Greenspan has the savvy to brake the economy without skidding it into a recession. Many credit the Fed with helping prevent a slump by easing credit after the 1987 stock crash. "Ever since the market meltdown, ; Greenspan has been walking on eggs," says Pierre Rinfret, a New York City- based economist. "He's making every move very cautiously...
...while James, last year's Ivy League Rookie of the Year, was breaking out of his sophomore slump, Harvard was not so lucky. The Crimson found itself behind early in both Ivy games and were able to come back and win only the Yale game. Against Brown, James' five three-pointers in the second half sparked a Crimson comeback, which cut a 13-point halftime lead to one point, 58-57, with seven minutes remaining in the game. But another Brown run iced the upset...
...Nobel laureate Milton Friedman, who believe that slow and steady growth of the money supply is the key to prosperity, expected inflation to shoot up when the Federal Reserve suddenly pumped cash into the economy to halt the recession of 1981-82. But inflation failed to ignite because the slump was so deep that it left the economy with plenty of room to grow without pushing up prices...
These frantic appeals are fueled by unprecedented competition for college admission. The rush began in the early 1980s, as schools realized that enrollments would slump when the first of the "baby bust" generation turned 18. To ensure full classrooms, they began beefing up their advertising and recruiting efforts. The result has been a flood of applications, with many students filling out eight or more. The boom has been most apparent at the 50 to 100 top-ranked colleges. "It seems as if 75% of the kids are applying to 25% of the schools," says Lee Stetson, dean of admissions...