Word: slump
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...Kong. The demonstrations in 1989 were prompted by fears that Hong Kong's way of life would be threatened after the handover of sovereignty from Britain to China in 1997. Last year's march followed an awful year in which the city had been by paralyzed by an economic slump and the SARS epidemic. This year, by contrast, Hong Kong turned out to celebrate and demand democracy, calling for the popular election of the territory's Chief Executive in 2007 and for universal suffrage in the vote for the Legislative Council in 2008. (Beijing, which has the ultimate...
...Kong. The demonstrations in 1989 were prompted by fears that Hong Kong's way of life would be threatened after the handover of sovereignty from Britain to China in 1997. Last year's march followed an awful year in which the city had been by paralyzed by an economic slump and the SARS epidemic. This year, by contrast, Hong Kong turned out to celebrate and demand democracy, calling for the popular election of the territory's Chief Executive in 2007 and for universal suffrage in the vote for the Legislative Council in 2008. (Beijing, which has the ultimate...
Instead, Cromwell was dealing with a bout of sophomore slump, battling apathy towards athletics, academics and his social life in a balancing act that was one shove in the wrong direction from spiraling out of control...
...last September, Moulton said, he did not want to face the “predictable, repeated and unanswerable” questions from friends about Iraq. “I wanted a burger, a beer and a girlfriend, and was far more interested in hearing why Nomar was in a slump, how Martha had gone from the kitchen to the dog house, and whether or not Larry Summers was still president of Harvard...
...best player in the game. Jason Giambi will hit 40 homers, like always. Javier Vazquez and Kevin Brown are improvements over Andy Pettitte and Roger Clemens. The Yanks’ bullpen is way better this year than it was last year. Derek Jeter is just in a mini-slump. Come September, the Yankees will be flying five games ahead of Boston, as always...