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Like most of the games played in the squad's current slump--it has lost three of its last four contests--the Crimson lagged early, and couldn't find enough firepower to blast itself past Adelphi, eventually falling to the Panthers by a 12-7 margin...
...renewed debt standoff came just as there appeared to be fragile signs of economic renewal in the battered Philippines (pop. 56 million). After two years of dramatic slump, the country's $32 billion economy is expected to grow an impressive 6% to 7% this year. Inflation has fallen from 40% two years ago to about 1% or 2% today. Free-market-oriented economic reforms by the Aquino government have also laid the groundwork for future growth. Says Gordon Westly, vice president of Manila's American Chamber of Commerce: "We're on the slow road to recovery...
Sternfeld's America looks inhabited but never quite settled, full of lovelorn suburban tracts and derelict factories where the banshees howl through the rusting work sheds. When recession comes -- a number of these pictures were taken during the slump of 1981-82 -- the oldest company towns in New England fall like the flimsiest trailer camp in Arizona. When times are good, the wilderness is shown being minced into salable acreage. Above it all, the sky rings its changes, slate blue in one picture, cornflower in the next, baby's-bottom pink in another. It is the last unspoiled stretch...
...West Virginia. Some year. Last week 67,000 state college and university students, as well as 8,300 faculty and other employees, learned that most spring classes would be cut by a week and one college summer semester would be dropped. Reason: a Moore order, prompted by an economic slump, for 20% cuts in state-agency expenditures. Asked Ray Bauer, 21, president of the West Virginia University student body: "Are we supposed to put our lives on hold while these clowns figure out what to do?" Apparently not. After two days of public outrage, an abashed Moore revoked the closings...
...beginning of the end of Gaddafi's expansionist dreams." The debacle not only delivered a near fatal blow to Libya's occupation of northern Chad but also damaged Gaddafi's standing at home, where Libyans are already grumbling about a sickly economy that is suffering from the slump in oil prices...