Word: slump
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mingled happily with eight-and nine-year-old calypso dancers at an airport welcome. Edward Seaga, the pro-business Prime Minister whose election in October 1980 ousted a leftist government, proudly ticked off signs of Jamaica's economic revival: positive economic growth after eight years of slump; the first foreign-exchange surplus since 1974; lower inflation; slightly less unemployment. He gave full credit to U.S. aid, which under Reagan has been generous indeed. Jamaica (pop. 2,250,000) now ranks fourth in the world in American aid per capita; only Israel, Egypt and El Salvador get more...
...endless slump goes...
...skinner and Chris Cahill (Donnelly and Hemingway), two track athletes who fall in love when they meet during a downswing in Chris's career. As the women fight and make love with a cool intensity rarely captured on film. Chris (the younger of the two) breaks out of her slump and comes into her own as a runner and hurdler. She even joins Tory's team, after the established track star pleads with her coach to give Chris a chance...
...second-year slump, Reagan softens his rhetoric
...National Committee, disclosing that Reagan's Mr. Nice Guy reputation is being replaced by a Scrooge-like picture of a President whose policies unduly favor the rich over the poor; and their own instincts. From the chief on down, the Reagan White House is undergoing a second-year slump. The affliction is a common one for Presidents, but Reagan's dramatic first-year legislative triumphs had given his aides some hope that they could avoid...