Word: slump
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Detroit, already depressed by the auto industry slump, Arthur Jefferson, superintendent of the city schools, counts on receiving only $50 million of federal money next academic year, down from $65 million in 1980-81. Remedial reading and math programs will be among those to suffer most, he says. Cutbacks in federal programs not being lumped into block grants will hurt too, of course. St. Louis has a waiting list of 10,000 people eager to move into subsidized housing, but expects to get only 250 subsidized housing units next fiscal year...
Chicago's economy-like the nation's-is in a slump, and Byrne can do little to ease it. Moreover, she cannot get the state legislature to say yes to almost any desire, as her late mentor could, and there is a residual hostility from remnants of Daley's political machine. Most worrisome of all, Byrne has a ready, if unannounced, opponent in the 1983 election: Cook County State's Attorney Richard M. Daley, 39, son of the founder of the very political empire to which Jane Byrne has laid claim...
...altered that verdict. The palm trees still sway in the cool breezes, the Pacific surf still spills across powdery white beaches, and the scent of lei still perfumes the air. Yet amid its travel-brochure lushness, Hawaii is struggling to cope with a surge in crime, a slump in tourism and the social strains caused by two decades of rapid growth. Laments Honolulu Mayor Eileen Anderson: "We've lost the feeling of 'Aloha' for one another...
...tensions are also exacerbated by a slump in tourism, the state's premier industry ($2.6 billion in 1979). The number of tourists dropped last year for the first time since 1949, and the visitor count during the first quarter of 1981 was down 5% from the same period in 1980. Many native Hawaiians work in hotels, stores and other tourist-dependent businesses, and the fall-off has encouraged the state government to boost efforts to diversify the economy...
Ever since its founding, the film business has been afflicted by fluctuating fortunes. After the golden age of movies, which lasted up until the end of World War II, television pushed the industry into a 30-year slump. Paid attendance reached 4.1 billion in 1946, but fell precipitously until it bottomed out at 820 million in 1971. At the same time, the average price of a ticket was rising from...