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Cheng was pleased with Harvard's improvement. "We had a lot of fun on the court. We're pulling out of our slump now," she said...
...Jones industrial average fall about 200 points from its peak of 1024.05 on April 27 this year. Moneymen have grown more and more skeptical of the Reagan Administration's supply-side economic policies and have begun fearing that they might lead to a synchronized global slump. Meanwhile, high interest rates in the U.S. have forced up the cost of money in other countries and raised even more concerns about future economic growth. Stocks in London, for example, have been depressed since early in September, when many of Britain's largest banks pushed up interest rates another two points...
...bankers and moneymen who gathered in Washington were indeed concerned with the U.S.'s uncertain economic prospects. While officials of industrial nations were privately worried that the American high-interest policy would push their countries into a severe slump, delegates of the less developed, nations fretted over the impact in their own countries of a U.S. drive to tighten up on World Bank lending and perhaps even further reduce the American share of world economic development assistance. Said one Mexican delegate: "Washington is arguing that more private financing is needed, but interest rates are already too high...
Chang said the organization has recovered successfully from last year's slump in enthusiasm after conservative political gains...
...eighth straight year ?since the commercial theater snapped out of its early-'70s slump ?the Great White Way is coated with happy black...