Word: slump
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...year ago, with Fox News in an election-year ratings slump, some TV observers (like me) wondered if its conservative commentators could thrive in an Obama era. The answer is yes, and how. Fox roared back and has more viewers than CNN and MSNBC combined...
...golf stop the slump? Polegato insists that his customers have asked that GEOX create a comfy golf shoe. "Golf is a perfect environment for GEOX technology," he says. "You walk long hours, often on a damp surface, and in warm if not hot climates. Why suffer with your feet? In the third millennium, it is impossible that people still suffer from such a basic problem as sweaty, smelly feet." Right on, Mario. The problem for GEOX, however, is that the world's economy may stink even worse...
...cash holdings.“We are confident that we issued our debt quite competitively given market conditions at the time,” Shore said.But the Forbes story suggested that Harvard’s liquidity position was more precarious than Shore let on, due to the endowment slump and collateral requirements on derivatives holdings. According to media reports, Harvard had a negative 5 percent cash reserve as of June 30, indicating that the University was over-leveraged in its investments. A recent Bloomberg analysis of the bond sales noted that Harvard’s debt paid out higher interest...
...with the economy in an unprecedented slump in part due to the widespread and unregulated use of derivative contracts, Mack says she feels “vindicated” but also...
...economies will be held in London's docklands, just east of Canary Wharf, a real estate megaventure conceived on industrial wasteland in Britain's go-go 1980s. By the time the first part of the project was completed in the early 1990s, Britain was in a deep economic slump, and the project's developer, the Montreal-based Olympia & York, went bust...