Word: slump
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What goes down must go up. That seemingly inexorable law of economics is now pulling many Asian countries out of the slump that only two years ago threatened to disrupt the entire global economy. Throughout the region stock markets are on the rebound and currencies are on the rise, leading to renewed confidence that the worst is over and business will pick up further. But it may be too early to declare victory. "What is really happening," says TIME business senior editor Bill Saporito, "is that the Asian economies are coming off the bottom. Even when you do nothing...
Told and repeated so many times, the genesis of Austin Powers has become industry folklore. Traumatized by his father's losing battle against Alzheimer's, which ended with his death in 1991, Myers was in a slump. He had milked his Saturday Night Live skit Wayne's World for two films, then had appeared in the dud So I Married an Axe Murderer. Driving home from his practice with an amateur hockey team, he heard Dusty Springfield cooing The Look of Love on NPR, and images swirled in his mind: fuzzy memories of free love and Nehru jackets, trashy movies...
Disney could use a hit; lately, the company has mostly been taking them. Profits are down, partly because of the slump in popularity of the post-Lion King animated features (and hence of the ancillary videos and merchandise). The company's stock is down too, losing 25% of its value in the past bull-market year. Costs have zoomed: a billion here for the Animal Kingdom theme park, $700 million there for a couple of cruise ships--eventually it adds up. And for months CEO Michael Eisner has been on the defensive in a suit brought by Jeffrey Katzenberg...
...times when I was downright miserable. My academic performance plummeted from near-perfect marks as a first-year to Group III. For a time, I found myself withdrawing socially, a situation that even led to an unwanted late-night brush with University Health Services. I pulled out of the slump, thanks to a little luck and a lot of help from friends, mostly from this newspaper and from Kirkland, my adopted House. What surprised me is that no one on an administrative level at Harvard noticed any of these warning signs. Or if anyone did, they certainly made no effort...
...senior forward displayed his talent over the next month-and-a-half as the Crimson put together an 8-4-1 record starting with Nebraska. He picked up the slack as nagging injuries put Moore into a mini-slump...