Word: slump
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Industry analysts believe the buyout makes sound business sense. Faced with a slump in jeans sales in recent years, Levi in the past 20 months has ruthlessly slashed costs, closing 14 domestic plants and an additional nine abroad while laying off some 5,500 workers. Net profits are up for the leaner Levi, and prospects are improving. Meanwhile, lower interest rates make it cheaper for the family to borrow money to finance the buyout. LEGISLATION Taking On Takeovers...
Teammates all reference the Yale series, in which he went 7-for-11 with six RBI in three games, clobbering a grand slam off Bulldogs ace Josh Sowers to lift himself and Harvard out of a slump and atop the Red Rolfe division. And then, of course, there was the Ivy championship series against the Tigers, where—facing elimination—he drove in every Crimson run against flamethrower and eventual fourth-round draft pick Ross Ohlendorf, topping it off with a 400-foot home run into the trees in dead center...
Spring recess was not kind to the Harvard women’s lacrosse team, as the Crimson (2-5, 0-1 Ivy) dropped three games, opening its Ivy season with a loss and extending its winless slump to five games...
...Poly’s pitchers scattered just two hits as the Harvard hitters were unable to break out of their late-weekend slump...
...three assists in six games—that has kickstarted a St. Lawrence season that was all but dead in the water four weeks ago. Entering play against Brown on Feb. 18, St. Lawrence (17-17-2, 9-12-1 ECAC) was mired in a 1-6-1 slump, limping towards the conference playoffs with road trips to Harvard, Cornell, and Colgate awaiting at season?...