Word: slump
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Altman agrees that prior to the UNII tourney. Harvard had been in the midst of a slump which had circumvented all aspects of its game. Losing five out of seven matches, the Crimson seemed unable to master any consistent and stable attack. The squad's hitting appeared less than aggressive and its defense lethargies...
...issue that both parties joined enthusiastically last week. President Ronald Reagan, in a televised news conference and a partisan tub-thumping blast in Virginia, at which high school bands blared and pom-pom girls paraded, sought to seize the high ground. The slump, Reagan declared, was the result of generations of misguided Democratic tax-and-spend politics. His Administration, he claimed, has already reduced inflation rates sharply and interest rates somewhat, and eventually will bring down joblessness too-if only the voters elect a friendly Congress that gives its policies time to work. The electorate, said Reagan, should "cut through...
...debate acquired special pungency because the week's news indicated that the economy is still bumping along the bottom of the painful slump that began in July 1981. The Government's index of leading indicators, the statistics thought to foreshadow most accurately future business trends, dropped .9% in August, after four months of upticks. Reagan dismissed this in advance as "a glitch" in a pattern of generally hopeful signs; Democrats saw much more than a glitch...
...much for that theory. Certain top-of-the-market cosmetics lines have continued to do well in the current slump, including Estee Lauder, Elizabeth Arden and the Cosmair lines of Lancome, Guy Laroche and L'Oreal. The affluent customers for those products have remained affluent through the recession, and even less well-off women have splurged occasionally to give themselves a psychic lift...
After a mini-slump--three losses in five matches--the Harvard women's volleyball team threw its weight around and soundly defeated the Tufts Jumbos (that's the squad's name), 15-10, 16-18, 15-10, 15-7, last night...