Word: slumping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that Kahn has hit a slump with his second book is hardly true. Instead, he is now dealing with anecdotal impressions of the new baseball reality, perhaps less warm but more real than his first book. This is difficult, because often in baseball the reality gets mixed up with the illusion, the stories become legends and lose their meaning. Kahn's book has not blurred this distinction; he seems to have as firm a hold on reality as Professor Dizzy Dean. It was Dean who, with typical prescience, settled the great curveball debate of the 1930s, the controversy over whether...
...placid and generally lackluster campaign that preceded it. Shortly before election day, according to one survey, 43% of the eligible voters felt that it made little difference which party won. Obviously, though, they cared more than the pollsters and politicians suspected. With Ireland suffering its worst economic slump in 50 years-unemployment has reached 10% and inflation 16%-voters were apparently impressed by Lynch's Action Plan for National Reconstruction, which promised, among other things, to create 20,000 new jobs...
...gained 20 pounds and lost his quickness, forcing the switch to DH. His career took several spins and culminated in his final batting average .222. Pro interest has waned, to say the least, but the South Carolina bench was plenty excited when he broke his 1 for 16 CWS slump and swatted one long in the seventh, off the light tower in right. It looked like another in the CWS tradition of extra inning finales. And then another hero...
...white and blue bathing suit, down the front of which he poured ice cubes periodically. He said he runs a marathon each month. He started running a number of years ago when he was plagued by insomnia and drowsy spells. The exercise pulled him out of his physical slump. "I owe my whole life to it," he says now. Like Meza (and enough other middle-aged runners to suggest a personality pattern), Guse says that he was not much of an athlete as a boy. Now he takes faintly malicious pleasure in seeing his old classmates who played...
...times of recession, nations inevitably turn toward protectionism as a means of shielding jobs from the threat of foreign goods. Even though the West and Japan are now recovering from the deepest economic slump since the 1930s, protectionist tendencies remain powerful. In an effort to defuse those tendencies in the U.S.-where they are strong in Congress and among the trade unions-President Carter, a committed free trader, is trying to solve trade problems one at a time. The unpleasant alternative would have been to resort to high tariff barriers that might set off a global trade war and raise...