Word: slump
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...claiming that the Afro-Am department is now completely healed, but it at least seems to have broken out of its self-perpetuating slump. Now we can begin to ask the hard question: What can Harvard do, within its tenure system, to bolster weak departments and maintain its strong ones...
...certainly is. In large swaths of the U.S., from Cape Cod to Los Angeles, from San Francisco to Long Island, in New Orleans, Chicago, St. Louis and such depressed markets as Denver and Houston, signs abound that the long, bleak housing slump is easing. As the rebound percolates through one market after another, real estate agents, mortgage bankers and builders forecast a heartening home-buying surge this spring...
With the loss of the formidable forwards of the senior class-Peter Ciavaglia, Ted Donato and Mike Vukonich--the Crimson, though returning every member of the ECAC's second-ranked defense, might seem due for a scoring slump...
Harvard's momentum was short-lived, however. The Crimson's Jim Coady was called for hooking just three minutes after the goal and the Golden Knights found an opportune moment to break out of its zero-for-10 slump on the man advantage...
...economic recession and budget slump plaguing Massachusetts have meant hard times for businesses across the state, even those with seemingly countless stack of money--the banks...