Word: slumping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Appropriately, Heath's new show of firmness came as the Gallup poll reported, for the first time since he took over, a slump in Labor's standing, halving the margin of their lead over the Conservatives to 4½%. While Wilson has been preoccupied with foreign affairs, mainly the Rhodesian crisis, the electorate has been increasingly nagged at home: increases in bread prices, wage disputes, inadequate gas supplies during winter cold spells, power failures. This week Parliament reconvenes, and the minor grievances at home will provide the Tories with fresh ammunition. This week, too, voters in Hull...
...would move hard-pressed industrialists to borrow less for capital investment. Yet Keynes did not despair of capitalism as so many other economists did. Said he: "The right remedy for the trade cycle is not to be found in abolishing booms and keeping us permanently in a semi-slump; but in abolishing slumps and thus keeping us permanently in a quasi-boom...
...Harvard's only loss came a month ago, in a game in which half the team was hurt and the other half was sleeping. The players haven't repeated that performance since, and there is no possibility that Brown will catch them in a similar slump...
Tarr attributes the summer slump to a lack of time for organization of these new areas. Because they worked through summer schools, Operation organizers sometimes had as little as eight weeks time to make advertising and press contacts, win approval for their product, and finally collect and program questionnaires...
Today, the slump is being dramatically reversed. The steel industry has devised a way to drill the once useless taconite with 4,300° jet flames. Machines then crush the ore, magnetize it and roll it into pea-sized pellets that are then baked to produce a product that is richer per ton than natural ore. So important is this development that Governor Karl F. Rolvaag's Democratic-Farm-Labor Party last year finally persuaded Minnesota voters to approve a "taconite amendment" to the state constitution that gives mining companies, traditionally fair game for steep taxes, an assessment...