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TIME's Board of Economists expects slower growth but no new slump...
...recession and remains wary about the outlook for the future. Fully 50% of those questioned reported no improvement in their standard of living over the past year. Moreover, people's expectations about how they will fare in the coming months have barely improved since the depth of the slump in December 1982. Some 50% saw better days ahead for themselves when questioned then, compared with 52% today...
...Crimson--which, with the exception of Blair, looked bad in its last two periods against Yale--has got to break out of its mini-slump of late, or risk losing its reputation as a February team...
...necessary, of course, to adjust one's feelings about Venice before entering this show. Today's visitor thinks of the city as a tottery invalid, preserved by the skin of the teeth from the ravages of tide, effluent, mass sightseeing and economic slump. One's awe at Piazza San Marco is mingled with pity and even impatience, and the child in the tourist impertinently wonders how soon the whole peeling confection, gold, Istrian stone, gelati and all, will be swallowed at last in the lagoon...
...career remained in a slump until 1979, when he substituted for Reynolds on a late-night special newscast. Says Arledge: "We discovered Ted had this wonderful ability to keep the conversation going in a way that everyone could follow...