Word: slumping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Coach Bruce Munro's weathered stickmen now look to the Dartmouth game this coming Saturday and the season finals with Yale the week after as the possible slump-breakers...
...their cheerful forecasts for a summer surge in the U.S. economy, Washington policymakers have counted on a strong rebound by the housing industry-the foremost victim of last year's tight money. Though housing has clearly begun to climb back from its worst slump in almost a decade, the revival so far has been a bit sluggish. Last week the Commerce Department reported that March housing starts showed a mere 1.7% gain from their February doldrums, to an annual rate of 1,171,000 new houses and apartments. At that pace, the industry was barely bettering its performance during...
...normally would be flying subsonic desks in the Pentagon or stateside bases. McNamara himself recently ordered a screening of 1,864 Washington-based flyers to see if their jobs could not be held down by nonaviators. Stepped-up recruitment and training programs in all services should overcome the slump eventually, but as one Navy captain lamented: "We won't be well until sometime between...
...general slump in the popularity of the Congress had been accentuated in different regions by regional grievances. In Madras, the main issue that swept the Dravida Munnetra Khazagam to power was fear of the imposition of Hindi as the sole official language of India. In Punjab, the fall in Congress stock was largely due to squabbles attending the partition of the state of Punjab into Punjab and Hariana. In Uttar Pradesh and Delhi, the Jan Sangh certainly gathered a large number of votes through its agitation against cow slaughter...
...ITALY. Toughened by its 1964 slump, the Italian economy expanded last year (growth rate: 5.3%) with less inflation than it has had in years. The auto industry produced a record 1,366,000 cars; steel production increased by 8% while most European steelmakers were in decline. One danger is spending by local governments. Milan is the only major city with a balanced budget; in the Sicilian city of Messina (pop. 262,000), budgeted expenses exceeded revenues by a staggering...