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...trade gap greatly worsened what would otherwise have been a normal slowing after a period of rapid expansion. Such pauses for breath frequently aroused fears of a slump during the economic recoveries that occurred in the 1960s and '70s. Recalled Walter Heller, a University of Minnesota economist and the chief economic adviser to Presidents John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson: "I remember Kennedy being terribly worried in 1962 that there would be a recession, and on the basis of very much the same kind of thing we are looking at here. We assured him that that would...
...subject seven years ago, after raising six children. Her re-entry came at the nadir for Latin in the U.S. In 1976 just over 150,000 American public high school students took the language, down a disastrous 79% from the 1962 peak of 702,000. "Latin went into a slump with the Sputnik era, with its concentration on science and technology," she recalls. And she says, "Then came the permissive age," the 1960s and early 1970s, when demands for so-called relevancy in course content pushed many schools to reduce or abandon classical studies and language instruction...
...They basically kept us out of the NIT last year," said Harvard's Keith Webster, who Saturday night broke out of a season long slump that had kept him on the bench at game's start...
...Super Bowl. If the results against Washington were more than turned-around from what they had been in the undefeated season of 1972, Shula and the Dolphins plainly were on a bright course again and did not plan to draft a quarterback. But, because of his senior slump, and the seamy rumors that have become football's automatic ex planation for any irregularities, Marino was still bobbing in the pool after five quarterbacks had been fished out: John Elway, Todd Blackledge, Jim Kelly, Tony Eason and Ken O'Brien. To Shula, it was an irresistible 27th pick. "Some...
Much is riding on what happens between now and Christmas, when the industry does 40% of its annual business. Companies had sluggish sales this summer, and several firms, including Gavilan and Franklin, went bankrupt during the slump. Retailers, especially, are counting on a robust holiday selling season. Says Dyson: "They're discounting like crazy just to stay alive." In San Francisco, the price of a Mac has dropped to $1,695, and PCjrs are going for $745, more than 40% off their original list price...